• Spring brings rain, warmer weather, serious motorcycle safety concerns

    April brings spring rain, blooming flowers and chirping birdies, in an annual ritual of life renewed. It also brings death for Airmen who ride motorcycles.The caution is going out from the Air Force and the 6th Air Mobility Wing Safety Office, which is looking to raise awareness ahead of the

  • New Dining Program to be introduced at MacDill AFB

    MacDill Air Force Base will be one of six bases to take part in the new pilot program of the Air Force Services Agency's Food Transformation Initiative.With FTI, the Air Force is changing the way it delivers food in order to meet the needs of today's Airmen. For the past 60 years, the Air Force has

  • Proposed Bill could affect MacDill AFB Personnel

    State Representative Kevin Ambler (R-Tampa) announced the 2010 "Ought to be a Law" student legislation, which is titled Smoking in Vehicles with Minor Passengers, was officially filed in the Florida House of Representatives Feb. 18. The next step in the process is for the bill to be referred to its

  • No Flow, No Go; 6 AMW Fuel Cell Keeps Em' Flying

    No component of the 6th Air Mobility Wing's flying mission is dispensable, but it's hard to argue that fuel itself isn't at the top of the list of "must-haves." Without it, and without the 6th Maintenance Squadron's Aircraft Fuel Systems Repair team, nothing ever leaves the ground.Fuel Cell, as it's

  • MacDill "Fab" Flight: Keeping the KC-135 tankers flying

    "You break it, we mend it" is a term common to the members at the 6th Maintenance Squadron's Fabrication Flight here at MacDill. The flight of more than 40 Airmen at Hangar 3 divided into the Structural Maintenance, Metals Technology and Non-Destructive Inspection help to repair and maintain various

  • Clinic Undergoes Special Survey

    The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) will conduct an accreditation special survey of the 6th Medical Group March 11 through 12, 2010. The purpose of the survey will be to evaluate the 6 MDG's compliance with AAAHC standards for ambulatory health care. Through an emphasis

  • The Tuskegee Airmen and Their Contributions to America

    With over 15,000 sorties flown on 1,500 missions, the Tuskegee Airmen were highly skilled combat pilots. Devoted and strong-minded African American men, the Tuskegee Airmen became America's first black airmen. In a period in which the black man was thought to lack bravery, intellect, skill, and

  • For Air Force it's 'toys from tots'

    A young Haitian girl is brought out of a medical tent on a litter. She is wrapped in a light blanket and clutches a small stuffed animal to her chest. Medical personnel carefully load her into the back of a truck and she is driven to a waiting Air Force C-130H for aeromedical evacuation to the

  • AMC continues aeromedical evacuation relief in Haiti

    After flying two missions in less than three days, a Critical Care Air Transport Team flew on a third mission as part of Air Mobility Command's aeromedical evacuation mission to Haiti Jan. 23-24.The three-member CCATT, assigned to the 88th Medical Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is