• Tinker Teacher wins national contest

    Jordan Whitcomb, Tinker Elementary 3rd grade teacher, will start this school year in style. Miss Whitcomb was the grand prize winner, for Tampa, for Jones New York in the classroom's 2009 Back to School, Back to Style national contest, with support from Macy's and Adopt-A-Classroom. Of the 17,000

  • New Base Clinic to open, ready to serve next generation

    At 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, Team MacDill will bid farewell to an iconic military treatment facility that has served the base populous for over fifty years. Although it is sad to say goodbye to this facility, the staff of the 6th Medical Group is eager to share the excitement surrounding the

  • Break the smoking habit for good

    Smokers who want to break the smoking habit may benefit from programs offered by the MacDill Health and Wellness Center. The HAWC offers Tobacco Cessation classes, a "Ready, Set, Stop" audio program available for checkout, an interactive HAWC website and SmokeSignals -an electronic device that

  • 9th CMSAF pays visit to MacDill

    More than 200 enlisted Airmen at MacDill Air Force Base were given the opportunity to hear from the 9th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. (Ret.) James Binnicker, at the Base Theater here during a visit Aug. 24. Chief Binnicker participated in a facility dedication ceremony in

  • Smoke detectors help save lives

    Smoke detectors are an easy way to assure your safety and that of your family. Sure, sometimes when you are cooking or showering your smoke detectors inadvertently go off and send you rushing to shut them down, but a properly functioning smoke detector can alert occupants to a fire during its early

  • UCI ‘Excellence’

    The results are in. The 6th Air Mobility Wing received an "Excellent" rating from the Air Mobility Command inspector general. Of all the units in the wing, 19 exceeded the standards. The wing's performances revealed 11 processes worthy of submission to the Crosstells and Best Practices. The wing

  • 6 MDG clinic enforces DoD policy

    The Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1986 established the Third Party Collections Program. Under this program, Military Medical Treatment Facilities are mandated to bill health insurance carriers for the cost of medical care provided to active duty family members, retirees and family

  • New Service at 6 MDG PharmaCARE Center

    The pharmacy department has implemented a new service which began Aug. 3. Civilian providers can now fax prescriptions to the PharmaCARE Center at 813-828-0088. To ensure proper filling follow these guideline: prescriptions must be faxed from a doctor's office, contain the doctor's printed name,

  • Former Army flyer was part of important WWII history

    With trademark corn-cob straight pipe clamped in his teeth, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's profile remains one of the enduring images of WWII history, and one Capt. JR "Bob" Normile remembers distinctly as a part of his personal history. Mr. Normile, who will turn 91 Monday, served with Gen. MacArthur, as

  • Top chefs shine at MacDill dining hall competiton

    MacDill's got talent in the kitchen, and it showed last week when two teams of budding chefs squared off in an all-out effort to best the other in the Top Chef cook off at the base dining facility. Two teams of four Airmen and one advisor squared off with assigned ingredients they transformed into