• Tinker students help celebrate Arbor Day

    MacDill Air Force Base students from Gen. Clarence Tinker Elementary School helped celebrate Arbor Day on April 26 with a tree-planting event and the annual reading of the Arbor Day Proclamation.Robert Hughes, 6th Civil Engineer Squadron director, was on hand to read the proclamation and participate

  • Environmental self-assessment brings opportunity to MacDill

    Every day, we train to become proficient in our jobs and continuously check our work to ensure our aircraft and support functions are mission ready. We also perform many activities to protect the natural environment and comply with environmental regulations and directives. Opportunities abound in

  • Student beach bash a hit with children, parents and teachers

    Military students change schools frequently, moving between six to nine times during their military lives - three to six times more than their peers. With such frequent relocations, it is important to have systems in place to connect military students with other students, not only at school, but

  • MacDill motorcyclists conduct safety ride

    Motorcycle owners from U.S. Central Command and various MacDill Air Force Base units gathered to conduct a motorcycle safety class and ride April 26.The event was organized to stress the importance of safe motorcycle practices in addition to providing some additional riding time for newer riders,

  • MacDill children put on the Ritz at Youth Center

    It was a Friday night to remember for the children of the MacDill Youth Center -- and their parents -- as the youths staged a fashion and talent show in celebration of the Month of the Military Child.The event was the idea of Christine Moore, assistant programs director of the center, who dubbed the

  • Take Back the Night

    Col. Scott DeThomas, 6th Air Mobility Wing commander, made a pledge against sexual violence along with other Tampa community leaders during the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay's annual Take Back the Night event April 21."In our organization," said DeThomas, "we will continue to ensure a zero tolerance

  • A big welcome home for 310th AS

    The 310th Airlift Squadron returned home April 2 to MacDill Air Force Base from a three-month deployment.On Jan. 27 approximately 15 members of the 310th AS deployed. Each member volunteered for what would be the unit's first deployment tasking.Despite the difficulty of being separated from loved

  • Family nights a hit with Team MacDill

    Like an ol' fashioned block party, moms, dads and children gather, laughing, chatting and filling their plates with food, as the late afternoon sun sprays rays of golden light on everyone.But family nights at MacDill Air Force Base are a little different. Faces in the crowd can be more reminiscent

  • Sports drinks: when you need them and when you don't

    Summer looms, and in Florida she's a dragon. Jogging or exercising outdoors becomes an epic struggle to endure heat and humidity, the dynamic duo of dehydration that burrows its way into the body and chases out what's in us - water, salts and essential minerals. Putting those elements back in the

  • MacDill service members graduate from ALS

    Congratulations to the latest graduating class of Airman Leadership School! The class graduated on March 28. The following are the graduates:290th Joint Communications Support ElementSenior Airman Calvin Robinson Jr6th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronStaff Sgt. Shanell CaddellStaff Sgt. Anthony