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Eglin AFB - Base Operator 850-882-1110
http://www.eglin.af.mil/
Hurlburt Field - Base Operator 850-884-1110
http://www.hurlburt.af.mil/
Destin Coast Guard
http://www.uscg.mil/d8/sta/destin/index~1.htm
Eglin AFB, Florida
Eglin AFB is one of the largest air force bases in the world, covering 724 square miles of reservation and 97,963 square miles of water ranges in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located just south of Crestview, Florida and north of Fort Walton Beach and the Gulf of Mexico. Eglin AFB employs more than 8,500 military and approximately 4,500 civilians. The average temperatures range from 51 degrees in the winter to 80 degrees in the summer.
Spanning five wars, Eglin AFB evolved from a distant and honorable past. The Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB tests and evaluates non-nuclear munitions, electronic combat systems and navigation/guidance systems.
Eglin AFB shares the runway with the Okaloosa County Airport, so commercial flights are only minutes away. Amtrak rail and Greyhound Bus terminals can both be found in Crestview giving many transportation options.
Upon arrival at Eglin AFB, Hurlburt AFB, or Duke Field you may stay at the base Temporary Lodging Facility (TLF) for a few days while you shop for your new home in the Fort Walton Beach area. Crestview or North Okaloosa County has the most affordable homes with about a 20-40 minute drive to base. Homes rent for $500 to $2000 per month in the area depending on your needs. Purchasing a home with current interest rates, will result in payments that are very close to rent, except that you would be owning your own home!
Our school system is ranked one of the best educational systems in the nation. Okaloosa county schools are ranked #1 in Florida.
Outdoor sports abound in the Eglin AFB, Florida area. We have 12 championship golf courses in the local area for the golf enthusiast. With the Gulf of Mexico only minutes away and the Blackwater and Shoal Rivers running through the Crestview area, we enjoy boating, canoeing, fishing, skiing and camping all within a convenient distance.
The vast majority of economic effects from Eglin AFB and Hurlburt AFB occur within Okaloosa County. It is estimated that approximately 50 percent of all jobs within the county are attributable to Eglin AFB activities, with an additional 20 percent resulting from Hurlburt’s influence. These estimates are based on 1992 Bureau of Economic Analysis data increased by the historic growth rate (1970-1992) and the 1993 Executive Summary.
Hurlburt Field
Hurlburt Field, home of the Air Force Special Operations Command and the 16th Special Operations Wing, was originally designated as Auxiliary Field No. 9, one of the original small pilot and gunnery training fields built on the Eglin Air Force Base complex in the 1940s. The field was named for 1st Lieutenant Donald W. Hurlburt, World War II pilot, who was killed in an aircraft accident on the Eglin reservation in 1943.
Air Force Special Operations Command provides Air Force special operations forces for worldwide deployment and assignment to regional unified commands throughout the spectrum of conflict. Air Force special operations forces' core tasks are functionally grouped into four mission areas: - Forward Presence and Engagement - Information Operations - Precision Employment/Strike - Special Operations Forces Mobility.
Air Force active duty special operations units were created to counter Soviet support of "wars of liberation" in the Third World. General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, established the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron (CCTS) in April 1961. Nicknamed "Jungle Jim," the CCTS was based at Hurlburt Field, Florida, with a two-fold mission: counterinsurgency training and combat operations. Aircraft such as U-10s, C-46s, C-47s, B-26s, and AT-28s soon showed up on the Hurlburt flight line. The CCTS devised FID tactics and techniques for building a counterinsurgency capability in Third World countries from Latin America to Africa, and from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.
In April 1987, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) was established at MacDill AFB, Florida, and Army Gen James J. Lindsay assumed command. Four months later, 23 AF moved to Hurlburt Field, Florida. In August 1989, Gen Duane H. Cassidy, MAC Commander in Chief, divested all non-special operations units from 23 AF. Thus, 23 AF served a dual role--reporting to MAC, but also functioning as the air component to USSOCOM.
More reorganization occurred on Hurlburt Field to include the 1720 STG becoming the 720 STG in March 1992; the transfer of ownership of Hurlburt Field from Air Mobility Command (AMC, and formerly MAC) to AFSOC in October 1992, followed by the merger of the 834th Air Base Wing (ABW) into the 1 SOW who assumed host unit responsibilities. A year later the 1 SOW became the 16 SOW in a move to preserve Air Force heritage.
Hurlburt Field is known as the home of Air Force Special Operations. But there are several other organizations located at the base that are assigned to other Air Force commands and play an important role in national defense.
Air Force Command and Control Training and Innovation Group (C2TIG) conducts instruction and wargaming responsibilities for joint air ground operations, including several exercises a year, and develops and evaluates warfighter tactics, techniques and procedures to support joint air operations worldwide. More than 4,000 military personnel participate each year in the group's Battlestaff Training School's Blue Flag and Warrior Flag exercises.
Also noteworthy at Hurlburt Field is the 823rd Red Horse Squadron, a heavy civil engineering construction unit that is self-contained and can rapidly deploy to support U.S. forces around the world. Red Horse airmen have supported operations in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Somalia, and Bosnia. Squadron airmen are often the first DoD military personnel in a theater of operations and are prepared to meet all civil engineering challenges, in keeping with their motto "Can Do, Will Do, Have Done."
In addition to ACC units, Hurlburt also is home to the Air Force Combat Weather Center. The organization operates under the Air Force Weather Agency, a field operating agency reporting to the Air Force Director of Weather (HQ USAF/XOW). AFCWC examines Air Force, Army, and special operations battlefield weather needs and evaluates emerging weather technologies to assist battlefield commanders.
Other organizations at Hurlburt Field include Det. 1, 334th Training Squadron, Detachment 7 of the 373rd Training Squadron, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Hurlburt Field has 680 military family housing units located on the main base, across U.S. Highway 98 and five miles NE of the main base. Housing waiting list is 10 to 24 months. All eligible personnel may apply for housing at either Hurlburt Field or Eglin AFB, which is located 11 miles away.
Destin Coast Guard
http://www.uscg.mil/d8/sta/destin/index~1.htm
Station Destin was commissioned in November of 1977 to provide a search and rescue and boating safety response for the increasing numbers of boaters in the Emerald Coast region. Originally staffed by a crew of twenty-four people, we currently have a crew of forty full time and fifteen part-time personnel and are supported by the volunteers of an active Coast Guard Auxiliary flotilla.
This increase has been necessary to meet the ever-growing needs of the region as well as the expansion of their missions over the years. Today, the men and women of Station Destin patrol an area stretching from Navarre Beach to Lake Powell, covering fifty-two nautical miles of coastline along the gulf as well as the Choctawatchee Bay, bayous, and intercoastal waterway, with an overall 3,120 square mile operating area.
Station personnel operates two 47’ motor lifeboats. Capable of responding in the most extreme sea conditions and two 25’ maritime security boats, high speed response craft. Our missions as the “Guardians of the Emerald Coast” include search and rescue, law enforcement, maritime security, marine environmental protection, and boating safety. Coast Guard Station Destin also plays an integral part in maritime homeland security in northwest Florida. Throughout our area station personnel, working in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, patrol the bridges, facilities, and other areas of strategic
interest that make up our waters.
Camp Rudder http://www.specialoperations.com/Schools/Army/Ranger_School/Camp_Rudder.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-rudder.htm
Camp Rudder is probably one of the best-kept secrets in Northwest Florida. Isolated on part of the massive Eglin Air Force Base reservation thousands drive past it everyday and never know that it is there. The camp has been on the Eglin AFB reservation for over fifty years. They occasionally hold public open house and Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Escambia residents should make every effort to visit and see the great work being done by a very small group of instructors.
Duke Field [Eglin Auxiliary Field 3]
The 919th Special Operations Wing (919 SOW), an Air Force Reserve Wing at Duke Field, trains at Eglin AFB to provide aerial refueling of special operations helicopters and long-range troop and supply infiltration missions in support of the Air Force Special Operations Command. Humanitarian missions are also conducted by 919 SOW, providing medical and other assistance to countries of the Western Hemisphere.
As part of Commando Vision, which started in 1994, the 919 SOW would not receive the AC-130Hs from the 16 SOW as had been planned. Instead the 919 SOW at Duke Field, Florida, retired its AC-130A gunships and gained MC-130P Combat Shadows, flown by the newly stood-up 5 SOS, and MC-130E Combat Talons, flown by the 711 SOS.
Approximately 300 people — members of the 8th Special Operations Squadron and 716th Maintenance Squadron — transferred 26 miles from Hurlburt Field, Fla., to Duke Field to serve with Air Force Reserve Command’s 919th Special Operations Wing. With the move, the squadrons, which had called Hurlburt home for 26 years, together became the Air Force’s only active associate unit. In addition to the people, the active duty also transferred six MC-130E Combat Talon I aircraft to the Reserve, adding them to the eight MC-130Es already owned by the 919th and flown by the 711th SOS.
The transfer of the MC-130Es and active-duty people to Duke Field was the 919th SOW’s second reorganization in a five-month period. In October the wing’s other flying squadron, the 5th SOS, which flies MC-130P Combat Shadows, formed up with its active-duty counterpart, the 9th SOS, as an associate unit at Eglin AFB, 17 miles south of Duke. The move involved five aircraft as well as air crews and maintenance workers. The two reorganizations were part of an overall plan for Air Force Special Operations Command to combine Reserve and active-duty components onto common airframes.
One of the most notable missions supported by USAF special operations was the Son Tay prisoner of war (POW) camp raid in 1970. The Son Tay raiders trained at Hurlburt and Duke Fields, near Eglin AFB, Florida.
NAS Whiting Field, Milton
https://wwwcfs.cnet.navy.mil/naswf/home.cfm
NAS, Whiting Field is the busiest naval air station in the world, responsible for an estimated 46 percent of the Chief of Naval Air Command's total flight time and over 10 percent of Navy and Marine Corps total flight time. The station was established as a naval air auxiliary station in July 1943. Whiting Field’s mission is to train student naval aviators in the primary and intermediate phases of fixed-wing aviation and in the advanced phases of helicopter training. Whiting Field’s fleet includes over 200 T-34Cs and nearly 150 TH-57s. Over 1,200 aviators from the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force and allied nations from all over the world complete their primary flight training annually at Whiting Field. Whiting Field employs approximately 2,000 military and 962 civilian personnel.
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