DVIDS – News – 156th Wing begins development on $34.6 million mission important amenities

The 156th Wing held a “Groundbreaking” ceremony, June 8, 2022, to formally acknowledge the start of a sequence of navy development tasks on base. The $34.6 million undertaking will positively impression the island’s financial system and supply greater than 100 jobs through the growth.

The 2 main, modernized amenities are deliberate for the 156th Contingency Response Group and the 156th Communications Flight, important to coach, equip and help the rapidly-deployable contingency response and communications capabilities, supplied by the Airmen of the Puerto Rico Air Nationwide Guard, to help our federal and state missions, all over the world or regionally on the island.

“This development is a part of a course of that started a number of years in the past after the change of mission of the Puerto Rico Air Nationwide Guard,” Reyes stated. “The assigned missions will permit us to have a further emergency response element on the island, whereas offering the chance for larger participation in federal missions. Army items must be related to navy doctrine; if they aren’t related, they disappear, and they’re misplaced. This transition has made us related to the nation’s protection and help plan, changing into a further component of emergency help on the island.”

Through the ceremony, representatives from key components of the undertaking used shovels to represent breaking floor for the beginning of development.

“I’m excited to witness the beginning of this development right here at Muñiz Air Nationwide Guard Base, in the present day. That is an immense accomplishment for the 156th Wing and our progress towards changing into the premier contingency response and fight communications wing within the Air Nationwide Guard,” stated Col. Pete Boone, the 156th Wing commander. “These thrilling new mission units would require our Airmen to quickly deploy to reply the nation’s name, and having the newest infrastructure is crucial to the success of the mission, setting us above the remainder when it’s time to carry out.”

These amenities are the primary congressionally approved navy development tasks the Puerto Rico Air Nationwide Guard has executed since 2002. The buildings will help the contingency response group and communications flight with workplace, deployment processing, and warehouse house and are anticipated to be full by mid-2024.

“With in the present day, comes change,” stated Boone. “Change for the betterment of the previous, current, and future Airmen of the 156th Wing.”