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  • MacDill PharmaCARE - busiest Air Force pharmacy

    The sound of pills hitting the bottom of orange bottles fills the room as Airmen quickly fill prescriptions. Customers stand in line waiting for their prescriptions and are greeted by smiling Airmen.The PharmaCARE center at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida prides itself with delivering fast and

  • Leadership now hiring: Rank not required

    “I just stepped up and took responsibility until we could resolve our manning issues,” said Senior Airman Michael Lewis, crew chief assigned to the 6th Maintenance Squadron (MXS).

  • Part-time defender

    Strapping on second chance body armor, and arming up with a baton, M-16, and 120 rounds of 5.56 ammunition is not a usual procedure outside of the security forces career field. However, a wing-wide program offers qualified Airmen from any specialty the chance to do just that, and take watch over key

  • Staff Sergeant LEAPs on opportunity to use native tongue

    Born and raised in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, Anastasia traveled to the States as a young adult with the intention of only staying a year to improve her English, However, one year quickly turned into two, and before she knew it, she enlisted into the U.S. Air Force."I've always wanted to use my ability to

  • BASH: Keeping an eye on the sky

    MacDill Air Force Base, Florida encounters a wide range of wildlife, such as coyotes, raccoons and various types of birds throughout the base and for this, MacDill relies on the work of the Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) program for aircraft safety to prevent wildlife and bird

  • TERPS watch over DoD aircraft in foreign nations

    Even a single error on an airport approach procedure could put the lives of pilots, crew members, and their passengers in danger. Therefore, it is the job of specialized teams of air traffic controllers to ensure Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft land safely around the world.The Terminal

  • Fueling the Mission

    "Over the past year our total force mobility Airmen moved over 320K tons of cargo, 876K passengers, offloaded over 1.2 billion pounds of fuel, and transported over 4K patients," said General Carlton Everhart II commander of Air Mobility Command.AMC would not be able to provide rapid global mobility

  • Perfect practice makes perfect

    The U.S. Air Force constantly strives for "Excellence in All We Do," and training is essential to that end.One of the 6th Air Mobility Wing's primary missions is aerial refueling, a capability that requires great precision."The mission can be anything; we talk about full-spectrum operations and

  • Crew Chief University: Enhancing aircraft maintenance capabilities

    The Air Force is continually searching for and discovering innovative ways to enhance the capabilities of its personnel. At MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in particular, a course known as the Crew Chief University has been developed to help aircraft maintainers better understand their mission,