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  • U.S. Air Force Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, interacts with spectators at the Department of Defense Warrior Games, Tampa, Fla., June 23, 2019.

    MacDill, Tampa Bay welcome VCSAF for DOD Warrior Games

    U.S. Air Force Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, interacts with spectators at the Department of Defense Warrior Games, Tampa, Fla., June 23, 2019. Wilson toured the event site at the University of South Florida, meeting with Warrior Games athletes and their families. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan C.
  • U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Russell Ruth, a wounded warrior athlete, practices a discus throw at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., June 20, 2019.

    MacDill, Tampa Bay fire-up DOD Warrior Games

    Over 300 athletes from the U.S. as well as Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom’s armed forces, have flocked to MacDill Air Force Base, to train for the Department of Defense Warrior Games.
  • CES Safety Stand-Down Day

    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 squadrons conduct a safety stand-down day to deter these types of incidents.
  • U.S. Air Force Gen. David Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, greets 1st Lt. Bob McClintock, a World War II veteran, at a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., June 6, 2019.

    CORONA South 2019 calls MacDill “home”

    Top Air Force leaders convened June 3-7, 2019, for the CORONA South summit at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. CORONA South allows senior leaders such as Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David Goldfein and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright to meet in-person with other Air Force commanders to discuss strategy and policy.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. James Morin, a 6th Aircraft Maintenance thermography certified technician, takes a thermal image of a bleed air duct at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., March 1, 2019.

    Warrior culture: Keeping the edge

    Culture has manifested itself through collective visions, garnering achievement and value among communities throughout history. The U.S. Air Force is no exception.
  • U.S. Air Force Col. Stephen Snelson, the 6th Air Mobility Wing commander, passes the 6th Operations Group guidon to incoming commander Col. Travis Edwards, during an assumption of command ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., May 23, 2019. During Edwards’s previous assignment, he served as the U.S. Transportation Command’s Senior Liaison Officer to European Command and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, Germany.

    MacDill welcomes new 6th Operations Group commander

    U.S. Air Force Col. Travis Edwards assumed command of the 6th Operations Group May 23, 2019, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

  • AMC expands junior officer force development program

    Air Mobility Command officials announced today an expansion of Phoenix Horizon, the command’s company grade officer leadership and force development program.
  • 6th Medical Group Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force Colonel Jiffy Seto, speaks to guests at the Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month luncheon at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., May 16, 2019.

    MacDill celebrates diversity with Asian American, Pacific Islander heritage month

    May was designated by Congress as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843, and the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, in which Chinese immigrants played a significant role in building.
  • National Police Week kicks off

    MacDill celebrates National Police Week

    MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – It is a great responsibility to always be on guard, fully prepared mentally and physically to protect and defend when called upon. Security Forces defenders are the military police that protects the U.S. Air Force’s greatest assets around the world.
  • Airmen from multiple Air Force specialty codes perform a hot-pit refuel on an F-15E during the Combat Support Wing capstone May 9, 2019, at Kinston Regional Jetport, North Carolina.

    Air Force completes test of combat support innovation

    The Air Force completed the final test of an innovative warfighting concept May 12 that could be a game-changer for future adaptive-basing constructs.
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