• Studying vultures to keep MacDill, aircraft safe

    During the winter months, tens of thousands of people flock to Florida to escape the frigid temperatures in their home states. However, the urge to seek warmer weather in the Sunshine State isn’t an idea exclusive to humans; feathery, talon-wielding scavengers like the sound of it too!The team with

  • 6th MDG expands footprint, full spectrum readiness

    MacDill's satellite clinic, currently located in Brandon, Florida, is relocating to better serve the 95,258 joint service members, families and retirees who call the Tampa Bay area home.The clinic moves to 9210 King Palm Dr., Tampa this April. The Brandon clinic serves approximately 750

  • Estate Claims for Airman 1st Class Malik Houston

    If anyone has any claims for or against the estate of Airman 1st Class Malik Houston, please contact Capt. Zachery Teague, the Summary Court Officer, at 813-828-1901, or by email at zachery.teague@us.af.mil.

  • Fortune favors the bold, not the reckless

    Over the last decades, the Air Force became a force increasingly concerned with not losing rather than winning. A risk-adverse organization stunts its own ability to become innovative and agile from its largest commands to its most fundamental organizations. The Air Force’s recent focus on

  • Call in the big guns – 6 SFS heavy weapons training

    A cacophony of gunfire erupted across an expanse of Avon Park Air Force Range, about one hundred miles east of MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. With no spectators in sight, defenders from the 6th Security Forces Squadron sent thousands of rounds through the barrels of M240 and M249 machine guns at