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  • Billy Waugh: One old Soldier who refuses to 'fade away'

    For most old Soldiers, especially those past their 80th year, the glory days of service and sacrifice are long past. Then again, Billy Waugh, 81, is no ordinary "old Soldier."Waugh was a U.S. Army Special Forces legend whose career spanned several years of work with the Studies and Observation Group

  • Break on through – MacDill defender house ensures excellence

    Tucked behind the 6th Security Forces Squadron’s combat arms training and maintenance building, an abandoned brick warehouse rests ominously.For the defenders with the 6th SFS, it’s a 5,000 square-foot, two-story building hosting the perfect training environment, equipped with two heavy metal doors

  • CAF: Social health essential well-being

    According to the World Health Organization in 1948, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."While this might appear to be common sense, with today's busy world, people often forget to take time not only for

  • Camera to microscope: Airman plants roots for Air Force career

    Peering through a scope, she identifies her target and prepares to execute her mission-- repair the patient’s tooth and alleviate pain. With focus, she extracts the dental pulp, replaces it with expert precision, and fills the tooth to ensure its preservation. Thus is the life of an endodontist, a

  • Carbon monoxide safety; know how to avoid this 'silent killer'

    Often called the silent killer, carbon monoxide is an invisible, odorless, colorless gas created when fuels (such as gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil and methane) burn incompletely. In the home, heating and cooking equipment that burns fuel can be sources of carbon monoxide.Carbon

  • Champion finds passion in Ironmans

    His hearts thumps, almost out of his chest, as he walks up to the starting line. Hundreds of people stand eagerly awaiting the big race to begin, and his excitement leaves a pit in his stomach. He mentally prepares; shutting out the crowd, silencing his own reservations for the challenges he’s about

  • Chapel a place for everyone

    In a world of 24-hour news cycles and constant Facebook status updates, there is one place that remains a haven of privacy for all personnel on MacDill Air Force Base - the Air Force Chaplain Corps. No matter the extremity of the issue, chaplains come alongside military members and their families

  • Chapel a place for everyone

    In a world of 24-hour news cycles and constant Facebook status updates, there is one place that remains a haven of privacy for all personnel on MacDill Air Force Base - the Air Force Chaplain Corps. No matter the extremity of the issue, chaplains come alongside military members and their families

  • Chaplain provides spiritual, mental support

    Enlisting in the Army in 1983, a current-day Air Force chaplain said he always knew he wanted to serve both his country and his faith. Originally stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a medical Soldier, he found himself spending his free time in the local church, his place of comfort.

  • Child of war: The journey of an American Airman

    With nearly one year of his four-year enlistment completed, Airman 1st Class Seng Thao, a medical records technician assigned to the 6th Medical Support Squadron (MDSS), slowly leaves behind a trail of struggles he overcame as a Hmong Refugee in Ban Vinai, Thailand.