• MacDill Airmen clutch 4 AMC Security Forces Awards

    The Director, Installations and Mission Support at Scott Air Force Base, Ill, announced the 2013 Air Mobility Command Outstanding Security Forces Individual Award winners on Nov. 21, 2013. Of the 17 categories, Team MacDill Airmen garnished the following four: Outstanding Security Forces

  • What is new at Surf's Edge

    The Surf's Edge Club has re-opened. Kicking off the celebration was a ribbon cutting ceremony, opening remarks and festivities, Nov. 20, 2013 at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.After the five-month renovation, the club features many new updates. The facelift includes refinished walls and new floors for

  • Remembering a great: John F. Kennedy

    Team MacDill hosted "JFK in Tampa: The 50th Anniversary" commemorative ceremony Nov. 18, 2013, in honor of John F. Kennedy's last visit to MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. before his assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963. During the ceremony, MacDill and the City of Tampa unveiled a plaque to

  • Vehicle Ops ramps up realistic training

    Since 2003, Air Force vehicle operators have been tasked with providing convoy support for the operations conducted in the Middle East; and due to the extreme nature of these taskings, Team MacDill's 6th Logistic Readiness Squadron engineered its first of many modified Combat Convoy Courses on Nov.

  • Operation Partnership

    Twenty-five local civic leaders were invited to pair with 25 base members for a day-long base tour and on-the-job experience at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Nov. 13, 2013.Operation Partnership kicked off bright and early at the Surfs Edge restaurant, where breakfast was served and keynote speaker

  • MacDill motorcycle safety, mentoring, and CFC awareness ride

    More than 60 members from MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., came together for a quarterly motorcycle safety and mentoring ride Nov. 1, 2013.MacDill Air Force Base's Motorcycle Operations Center coordinated the ride with the 6th Contracting Squadron's Combined Federal Campaign kickoff event. The purpose

  • "Bay Warrior" christened

    A new boat was christened at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.'s marina Nov. 1, 2013.The "Bay Warrior" was donated by several veterans' organizations to MacDill."[MacDill] appreciate[s] all of your support to make this happen," said Col. Peter Santa Ana, 6th Mission Support Group commander, "and also to

  • Building up MacDill's oceanic ecosystem

    About 65 volunteers from Team MacDill and Tampa Bay Watch, over two days, added 1,209 bags of fossilized shells to the bar along the shores at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. Oct. 17 and 18, 2013."We started this about eight years ago, using two different aspects, oyster domes and oyster shell bars,"

  • MacDill Airman rectifies Army Helo hit by lightning, twice

    Lightning never strikes the same spot twice, right? Well, for Army Blackhawk helicopter 27107 that was true, until a second strike blasted its tail rotor leaving it once again grounded.Noticing unreliable compass deviation, the testing crew of the U.S. Army Reserve's 5 Batalion-159th Aviation

  • Supporting the community in which they live

    In the last week more than 300 youth from the surrounding area visited MacDill AFB. As a way of giving back to the community in which they live, service members from around the base volunteered their time to interact with the youth. ROTC Day spearheaded by Staff Sgt. Brandon Shapiro, Senior Airman