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  • 91st Air Refueling Squadron revitalizes heritage room

    While some units are pleased with having a break room to have lunch, the 91st Air Refueling Squadron takes pride in going above and beyond for their “heritage room.”The 91st ARS heritage room will have newly refurbished tables, reupholstered chairs, frost-tinted front doors, a custom wood-finished

  • A defender’s legacy honored: Remembering 1st Lt. Joseph D. Helton

    First Lieutenant Joseph D. Helton was the embodiment of an Air Force leader. Voluntarily deployed out of the 6th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, Helton served as a flight commander for the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron in Iraq. Instead of going home

  • A military family all their own

    To highlight the important role children play in the Armed Forces community, April was established as the Month of the Military Child. There are approximately two million military children, ranging in ages from newborn to 18 years-old; 1.3 million military children are school-aged. Care of military

  • A story of hardship—Jeanne Rapp

    Eugenia Szaban was only six years old when she and her family were taken from their home and forced into slavery. She recalled the following events as if they happened yesterday."On the night of Feb. 9, 1940, a blistering cold night, we [my family and I] were aroused by a banging on our door by

  • AF firefighters unite for training

    Set atop two jet fuel tanks, a firefighter prepared to rappel down while 11 of his crew members ensured all the proper equipment was secure and ready to rescue a dummy 50 feet below.The high angle rescue was one of several scenarios Airmen were trained on during the Rescue Technician 1 training.Two

  • Air Force PT in the community

    "Initially, the intent was to visit the children to teach them about physical fitness and to get them excited about exercise," said Tech. Sgt. Matthew Orlando, 6th Communication Squadron.Orlando used his experience as an U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training instructor to assist in teaching

  • Airman & Family Readiness: Here for you

    In a building centrally located on MacDill Air Base, is a facility that caters to military members of all services and their families. The facility named after Madeline Tinker McCormick, the wife of the first commander (Gen. Clarence Tinker) of what later became MacDill Air Force Base, is filled of

  • Airman dedicated 27 years of service

    Winston Churchill once said, "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." For Chief Master Sgt. Robin Brooks, 6th Medical Group superintendent, her life has been defined by committing 27 years to serving our great nation.  At the age of 17, the Calumet, Michigan native,