 The air station also held oversight of an auxiliary airfield known as Outlying Field Osceola (OLF Osceola) approximately east-southeast of NAS Sanford.Decommissioned in 1946 and placed in a caretaker status, the base was recommissioned as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Sanford (NAAS Sanford) in 1950 in response to both the Korean War and the Cold War.Subsequently, redesignated as a full naval air station and renamed NAS Sanford once again, the installation initially served as a home station for carrier-based AJ Savage attack aircraft assigned to the Atlantic Fleet.