• Total dance experience summer camp; keeping youth active

    Children at the MacDill Youth Center learned new dance skills, and enhanced their fitness at a Total Dance Experience Camp July 14. The participants at the camp were taught line dancing, swing, ballroom and hip hop styles during the camp. There were brief discussions on dance and dance related

  • WW II Vet. creates clean cuts

    For more than 26 years Mario Pujol's specialty has been taking care of servicemembers here on MacDill Air Force Base. He cuts hair at the barber shop on base and maintains his regular customers with his sharp precise styles. His customers range from Airmen to generals and civilians to family

  • Tips for a quick visit at PharmaCARE

    The renovations and addition to the PharmaCARE complex was completed in March 2009, adding an additional 7,200 square feet to the existing structure. This addition has allowed the consolidation of the BX Refill Pharmacy with the PharmaCARE Center. Prescription pickup at the BX pharmacy was

  • Lunch and Learn parenting sessions getting top marks

    It's not unusual to leave from lunch with a full feeling, but parents who attend Lunch and Learn sessions held by the MacDill Child Development Center find they are leaving full of new and helpful information about coping with military family life. They are presented by professional military life

  • MacDill AMC Icon

    Senior Master Sgt. Craig Hall, 6th Civil Engineer Squadron deputy fire chief was named the winner of the MacDill Air Mobility Command Icon show held at the Surf's Edge Club, July 10. He will go on to represent the base at the command contest scheduled for Scott AFB, IL, later this year. The Air

  • JROTC Summer Leadership School a hit with budding Airmen

    The ranks at MacDill swelled by 103 recently - students and Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps members still too young to be Airmen, but not too young to dream of an Air Force life. And a taste of it they got, spending four days at the base as part of the annual Air Force JROTC Summer Leadership

  • Quantum Leap Farm family fun day provides equestrian therapy

    The members of the Quantum Leap Farm at Odessa, Fla., opened their gates to MacDill active duty servicemembers and their families to relax at a fun day event held Saturday, June 27. The farm, a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 provides therapeutic and recreational horseback riding program for

  • Ambassadors on the track

    Senior Master Sgt. Torrance McGee is a member of the 6th Communications Squadron and was the coach of the Air Force and Armed Forces Track & Field team from 1997 until his retirement in 2009. Imagine this headline, "War averted between _____ and _____ due to friendship of track athletes" Fill in the

  • Summer bowling program for kids; great activity to beat the heat

    Summer is for kids and recreation, but in Florida, there are times when outdoor activities seem more like work than fun. Enter a challenging, physical sport that is practiced in air conditioned comfort, with cool drinks and food just a few steps away -- bowling. A special summer program just for

  • Recruiting team comes to MacDill

    More than 100 Airmen got the chance to learn how they can mold civilians into Airmen during a Special duty briefing held at the Base Theater June 18. The briefing was conducted by Senior Master Sgt. John Bryant, Recruiting Team superintendent from the Air Education Training and Command in Randolph