• TRICARE open season to begin Nov. 11, 2019

    If you would like to make changes to your or a family member’s TRICARE health plan for 2020, your opportunity is fast approaching with this fall’s TRICARE Open Season.

  • Honoring the heritage of the Fighting Sixth week 4

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of the unit presently designated the 6th Air Mobility Wing. The wing moved without personnel or equipment to Eielson AFB, Alaska, and became Strategic Air Command’s Alaskan base of operations, the 6th Strategic Wing. Known after that as the 6th Strategic

  • 6th Medical Support Squadron readies relief

    The 6th MDSS was tasked by Air Mobility command’s chief of readiness to prepare equipment for use in hurricane relief. The 6th Medical Support Squadron enables combat capability of the 6th Air Mobility Wing, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and 36 partner units, delivering

  • "We're tougher" MacDill Airman inspires resiliency

    Senior Airman Courtney Carlson, a dental technician assigned to the 6th Operational Readiness Medical Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base, recently spoke on a panel at the Air Force Sergeants Association conference in San Antonio, Aug. 27, 2019.

  • Honoring the heritage of the Fighting Sixth week 2

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of the unit presently designated the 6th Air Mobility Wing. In 1944, the 6th Bombardment Group reactivated to support the air offensive against Japan. As part of the 20th Air Force, the Group’s B-29 Superfortress aircraft relocated to North Field on the small

  • Honoring the heritage of the Fighting Sixth

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of the unit presently designated the 6th Air Mobility Wing. The Sixth traces its roots to Sept. 30, 1919 when the U.S. Army Signal Corps organized it to defend the Panama Canal. Initially named the 3rd Observation Group, the unit was redesignated the 6th

  • Here comes the boom! MacDill's EOD team instructs community law enforcement

    Handling bombs is risky business, but what makes bombs even more dangerous is the variety between explosives.Fortunately, identifying explosives is a specialty of the 6th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight.For the first time ever, MacDill’s EOD team invited the Hillsborough

  • 6th Communications Squadron hosts family day

    The 6th Communications Squadron hosted an open house August 9, 2019 at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida where they invited families to take a behind the scenes look at what it takes to keep communications on a base running.