• Annual National Prayer Breakfast 2008

    Each year many look forward to the MacDill's Annual Prayer Breakfast but this year was extra special, as Brig. Gen. Cecil R. Richardson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains, was the guest speaker at the MacDill event held Wednesday at Officers Club. The Annual Prayer Breakfast is in observance of

  • Voluntary Protection Program comes to MacDill

    Take a second and look around the work center. Spot where the next mishap will happen? Spotting where the mishap might occur in the workplace is one of the four key elements of the Voluntary Protection Program that is being implemented here. A 10 member assessment team visited the base in recently

  • Airmen, canines make doggone good team

    Looking out for one another and always having each others back in a time of need is what the Wingman concept is all about. For 11 members of the 6th Security Forces Squadron military working dog section, their wingman is of the four legged variety. The 11 teams consisting of handlers and their dogs

  • MacDill host AF soccer team trials

    More than 40 Airmen world-wide competed against each other here Jan.12 with the hopes of becoming members of the coveted All-Air Force men's soccer team. "There are representatives from at least 20 Air Force bases competing in multiple scrimmages and playoffs at the MacDill field as well as in the

  • MacDill joins pirate invasion, shares booty with residents

    Faux pirates, kings, southern bells and even MacDill's 6th Air Mobility Wing commander became swash buckling superstars for a day at the annual Gasparilla Parade Saturday. A familiar route home for many Team MacDill members, Bayshore Boulevard was party-central for the 104- year tradition which

  • MacDill's Manpower and Organization Flight

    When it's time to deploy and the taskings are sent down from the Air Force or major commands, the unit that determines the amount of Airman required to do the job is the Manpower. Most people are unaware that war time readiness starts in Manpower. "As a flight, Manpower approaches everything as a

  • Jump Start replaces Right Start, CBI

    Beginning in March, servicemembers arriving here can expect to Jump Start their orientation to MacDill without leaving their office. Air Force Smart Operations 21 has streamlined the orientation process by providing both the Right Start and consolidated base in-processing slides online for the

  • MacDill prepares for new clinic

    The MacDill family will be saying goodbye within the next two years to one of the base's oldest facilities. According to the Hospital's Executive Summary, plans for construction of the new clinic began in 2005. "Construction began during the last quarter of 2007 and is scheduled to be complete in

  • Photographers, broadcasters, journalist join forces

    The deadline for news is now. Long gone are the days when people waited on the neighborhood paperboy to find out what was happening around town. With twenty-four hour media outlets like CNN and Fox getting news to the world by the minute, many other news services have jumped on the band wagon to get

  • Futuristic land/watercraft technology tested at MacDill

    In the movie "The World is not Enough", James Bond went after the bad guys in a vehicle called the Q Boat which was equipped with a GPS tracking system, rocket propulsion and heat-seeking torpedoes. It was capable of driving on land as quickly and easily as it did on water. Every now and then, the