• F-16s from Shaw AFB conduct joint training at MacDill

    F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft from Shaw Air Force Base’s 79th Fighter Squadron “The Tigers”, Sumter, South Carolina, conducted joint integrated training at MacDill and Avon Park Air Force Range during exercise Raider Fires 21-12 Sept. 8-15, 2021.

  • Here comes the boom! MacDill's EOD team instructs community law enforcement

    Handling bombs is risky business, but what makes bombs even more dangerous is the variety between explosives.Fortunately, identifying explosives is a specialty of the 6th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight.For the first time ever, MacDill’s EOD team invited the Hillsborough

  • MacDill firefighters, "Cable Dogs" save lives

    MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Last summer, the Air Force suffered the loss of a civil engineer squadron Airman who was operating around an entry to a confined space in a deployed location. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John J. Allen the director of civil engineers, ordered that all civil engineer

  • 153rd AW, 6th CES extinguish fires together

    Eighteen Air National Guard firefighters from the 153rd Airlift Wing in Cheyenne, Wyoming, visited MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, to participate in a joint-training exercise with 6th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters, March 4-7. The joint firefighting training emphasized repelling and technical