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  • Medical Airmen strive to be effective communicators

    Communication skills and attention to detail help lab technicians assigned to the 6th Medical Support Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, keep our service members healthy and our aircrew ready to fly.

  • AFAF supports battle against cancer

    He began his Air Force career as a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialist – an Airman trained to survive and operate in all conditions and teach others to do the same.Second lieutenant Roger Zehr, now an officer in charge of operations intelligence with the 6th Operations Support

  • Cataract Surgery and Intraocular Lens Choices for “Fighter Pilot Vision”

    Cataracts affect about 25 million Americans and occur when an individual’s natural lens becomes cloudy over time. They can cause blurry or cloudy vision, dim vision, and/or glare and halos at night. They can also lead to a significant decrease in a person’s ability to perform activities of daily

  • Help! How do my medical records get to my duty station?

    The headline is an excellent question and the TRICARE Operations and Patient Administration (TOPA) flight at the 6th Medical Group is here to assist you. The Central Records office is located on the 2nd floor of the clinic and there are three records rooms within the MacDill Clinic. Those records

  • MacDill selects Military Youth of the Year

    Since 2003, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America have partnered with the Department of Defense to sponsor the Military Youth of the Year competition, which recognizes high school students based on their merits of leadership, service, and academic excellence.

  • Flying classrooms – teaching future leaders in the air

    Leadership – a quality that may come instinctively to some, can be learned. Since military members are charged with the responsibility of taking care of and connecting with the men and women serving alongside them, this quality is one of the priorities of military service. Many leadership courses