[MilCom] Florida military aircraft headed to Tenn. base

[Brian Halk]

Air Force Link says that Homestead is ---indeed----evacuating


Brian, at "The Spot"
--- On Sat, 8/25/12, AllanStern at aol.com <AllanStern at aol.com> wrote:

> From: AllanStern at aol.com <AllanStern at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] Florida military aircraft headed to Tenn. base
> To: Milcom2 at yahoogroups.com, milair at mailman.qth.net, milcom at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 7:18 PM
> As posted to my MilRadioComms group,
> I have been hearing planes  evacuating 
> since 10:00am EDT this morning, including "Bolt" KC-135
> tankers  from 
> MacDill, "Bandit" USN F-5Ns from Key West, several F-16
> flights that were  most 
> likely Homestead birds. Some of the F-5s went into
> Birmingham  AL.
>  
> Freqs:
> 292.10  MacDill Ops
> 273.55  Jax Ctr
> 251.15  Jax Ctr
> 307.25  Jax Ctr
>  
> A Jolly HH-60 multi-ship flight landed at Melbourne IAP,
> dropped  
> passengers and then came to Patrick AFB; acted like an
> evacuation of  personnel.
> 118.20 Melbourne Twe
> 133.75 Patrick AFB Twr 
>  
>  
>  
> AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
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> 
> jnesmith2 at cfl.rr.com
> writes:
> 
> Air  traffic around McGhee Tyson Air National Guard
> Base will pick up
> starting  midmorning Saturday as military aircraft from
> Florida evacuate
> ahead of the  storm system identified as Isaac,
> officials said.Capt. Joey
> Keith said  refueler and cargo planes from MacDill Air
> Force Base in South
> Florida  should begin arriving about 9:30 a.m.,
> Saturday.
> 
> Maj. Gen. Max Haston,  Tennessee adjutant general, said
> Tennessee is always
> prepared to fully  support neighboring states in an
> emergency.
> 
> "We hope that the aircraft  movement is only
> precautionary, but we are ready
> and willing to assist  however needed," he said.
> 
> This isn't the first time McGhee Tyson has  been called
> upon to provide
> hurricane evacuation support. In August 2011,  both the
> Tennessee Army and
> Air National Guard facilities at McGhee Tyson  were
> used to support aircraft
> and helicopters from all over the East Coast  because
> of Hurricane Irene.
> 
> Keith said that while relocated at McGhee  Tyson, the
> aircraft will 
> continue a full operational schedule with no  overall
> impact on their 
> mission readiness.
> 
> While an exact number of  aircraft expected wasn't
> available, Keith said 
> only
> a handful of the  refueler and cargo planes are
> expected.
> 
> "As part of their normal  operations that they plan on
> doing to continue to
> train for war-readiness  to be proficient for their
> jobs, they'll just
> relocate their operations  here," Keith said. "We're
> ready to facilitate
> anybody's arrival and help  anybody who needs it."
> 
> 
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