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  • How lucky we are to serve here; some Team MacDill standouts

    Did you know MacDill celebrated an anniversary last week? According to our crack historian, Bill Polson, we did. If you had been living in Tampa on July 14, 1939, you might have seen this headline in over-sized letters across the front page of the Tampa Tribune: "TAMPA GETS THE BIG AIR BASE." The

  • Attitude: It really does make a difference

    I once had a boss who told all who would listen, "Limitations Are Self-Imposed!" We heard this saying so often we often joked about it. Any challenge that we as an organization were presented with were tackled head on. The words "we can't" were replaced with "let's see how we can." After being

  • ‘There I was’ The power of Airmen

    There are few Air Force Medical Service officers who are afforded the privilege of command and even fewer who get the opportunity to do so in a contingency environment, so I was really humbled when I was selected by the Air Force Central Surgeon General Office to command the 455th Expeditionary

  • Memories of MacDill, Tampa Bay will always be with me

    "There's no place like home! There's no place like home!" You may remember Dorothy repeating these words in the Wizard of Oz. As my wife Carolyn and I prepare to leave MacDill, these words ring in my ears. Of all the places I've lived in my 23+ years in the Air Force, the Tampa Bay community in

  • 4th a time to reflect on our founding; some Team MacDill standouts

    I hope you all had a safe and wonderful holiday break earlier this week. And I hope that as many as could, took advantage of the family day. It was well-deserved.During the holiday, I marshaled a local parade and can't express to you enough how much your service and presence here means to the people

  • Team MacDill high caliber; some of this week's standouts

    Each week, I see examples of the high caliber of personnel we have serving at MacDill. You see it too. They are in every organization. Although I can't call each of you out by name every week, I'm going to at least give a big pat on the back to three who caught my attention recently.I had the

  • Invisible crime?

    Just over two years ago, I was at Maxwell AFB, Ala., in the home stretch of Air War College, seeing the light of graduation at the end of the tunnel. I had just returned from a regional studies trip to several countries in Central Asia and one of the few things that stood between me and graduation

  • Evolve or risk extinction

    A basic law of nature asserts species adapting to changes in their environment will evolve and survive. The ones lacking the capability to adapt will merely become nonexistent. In a similar fashion, free-market businesses will either adapt to changes in customers' expectations, supply chain

  • Ready to serve, ready to help; some shout outs to our standouts

    Last Friday, Michele (my wife) and I sat down with a reporter for an article in one of their upcoming issues, and they had all the usual questions. You know: Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? What's it like to fly a military aircraft? What keeps you up late at night?What keeps me up

  • Taking care of our servicemembers; thanks to this week's standouts

    First things first: This week the U.S. Army commemorated its 236th Birthday. From all the men and women of MacDill AFB, "Happy Birthday," and thank you for your commitment to our great country. It's an honor serving with you.What a great session of the Community Action Information Board we had last