Hey Rachel and Lawrence

[malaise]

I know you're busy but can you find out if it's true that the families of deployed military folks from Tyndall Air Force Base are not receiving any help and cannot return to the base for personal stuff.
Thank you.

[bearsfootball516]

1. You might have more success shooting MSNBC an email or calling one of their offices.

I'm guessing Rachel and Lawrence don't have much spare time, and they aren't using it to peruse DU.

(Although how cool would that be if they did??)

[malaise]

2. Their staff check here

Believe me

[sarah FAILIN]

3. Locals are saying..

That all the housing on Tyndall was destroyed

[malaise]

4. Yep

Needs to go national

[malaise]

5. Check this

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https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17978902/hurricane-michael-panama-city-tyndall-air-force-f22-climate-change


Hurricane Michael roared through the Florida Panhandle last week with 155 mph winds and a storm surge that reached 14 feet, killing at least 18 people in four states, destroying homes, and knocking down power lines serving millions of customers.

Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, took a direct hit and suffered heavy damage. “The flight line is devastated. Every building has severe damage. Many buildings are a complete loss,” according to the base’s most recent storm
Of particular concern were the base’s F-22 Raptor aircraft, the most sophisticated fighter jet in the Air Force’s arsenal. The stealth fighters cost $377 million apiece (if you include research and development costs), and the Air Force has 183 of them in its inventory.

Tyndall is home to 55 of those F-22s. The New York Times reported that 33 of the Raptors were sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. According to the Washington Examiner 17 of the highly valuable aircraft remained in the path of the storm. A spokesperson for the Air Force declined to give any tallies for damaged aircraft at Tyndall, saying that crews are still assessing the scale of the damage.

[FM123]

6. According to a military newspaper, they cannot return just yet...

This is the memo from the base commander:

Good morning Team Tyndall,

We are one week into the evacuation of Tyndall Air Force Base. We have completed the initial recovery phase. Phase 2 has begun.

The focus of Phase 2 is to get you back into your homes to inspect and gather your belongings.

Please understand that our base and local area remain dangerous. We are still cleaning roads, power lines and debris.

We are working to get our utilities back on line. Experts are telling me it will likely be a couple of weeks before we can start to get back our power.

This has been a major undertaking, but we are better than we were yesterday, and tomorrow will be even better.

In the next day, I will give you guidance for how and when I will open the gates for you to come back to your house or dorm.

To be clear, you won’t be able to stay. You will have to stage from outside the evacuation area and depart the base after you visit your home.

We do not have the capacity to feed you, bed you down, or provide any support to sustain a large population on base. All the resources we have are supporting the emergency relief efforts trying to bring our base back online.

My main effort right now is two-fold. First, we are preparing the base to receive and bed down a unit with a focus on repairs.

Second, I’m making the base safe for your return. This means cutting trees blocking roads in our neighborhoods and removing dangerous debris. We’ve lost a lot of tires on our trucks and other vehicles driving over nails and other debris. If we open the gates too soon we might make problems worse.

You and your families remain in my thoughts at all times. You have always been and will always be my number one priority. You are Tyndall’s most important asset, and I am so very thankful that you are all alright.

v/r
Col. Brian S. Laidlaw
325th Fighter Wing Commander

https://taskandpurpose.com/tyndall-commander-power/

[Totally Tunsie]

7. This is a wonderful example of a concise and compassionate directive from a Commander.

Well done, Sir.