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  • MacDill uses texts to notify “FamCampers”

    Remotely located near the beach and recreation center at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, lies the family campground, more commonly known as FamCamp, a popular visitation program that operates year-round allowing people to rent one of 366 full-service sites complete with electricity, water, waste

  • MacDill weather forecasters can see the future

    After eight and a half weeks of Basic Military Training, a group of Airmen spend roughly eight months learning meteorological concepts, forecasting skills, process and procedures, and how to apply the knowledge from their training in order to be able to call themselves U.S. Air Force Weathermen.

  • MacDill welcomes “first of its kind” training

    It’s zero dark thirty and the cadets are up, preparing to face the day. The mission: to earn plank owner status as the inaugural class of the Recruit Training Command-Tampa Recruit Training for the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.

  • MacDill youngster setting world records, setting example

    The prototypical male hero and role model is strong, confident and determined, articulate and smart. The one thing he usually isn't is 13 years old.But while Evan Pittman, son of MacDill residents Navy Rear Adm. Hal and Rebecca Feaster-Pittman, may just qualify to be a teenager, he's more than

  • MacDill youth receive hands-on experience with STEM camp

    Thirty students from 6th Force Support Squadron’s child development centers participated in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics camp sponsored by the Society of American Military Engineers on base, June 10-14.Throughout the week, MacDill’s youth practiced sub-surface designation

  • MacDill, TSA joint explosives training goes off with a bang

    They sometimes take on the consistency of oatmeal, while other times they're pliable like putty. Some-times they are like toothpaste, hidden in hygiene containers, or tucked into an individual's underwear or the sole of their shoe.Because of these adaptive and inconspicuous traits, Mac-Dill Air

  • MacDill’s AFE ensures strategic deterrence through air refueling support

    When walking through the belly of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., it is easy to notice the little green pouches hanging from each seat against the walls, oxygen tanks on the right-hand side with masks attached and multiple other items secured throughout the aircraft.

  • MacDill’s FamCampers give back

    Every winter, he and his wife pack up their motorhome and drive 1,500 miles from Rhode Island to MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. They trade in their ranch style home in the frigid Northeast for a corner lot on MacDill’s family camp grounds, where they live in a recreational vehicle for six months out

  • MacDill’s first line of defense

    With the hustle and bustle of everyday operations, security forces members at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, scan and process thousands of identification cards and base access credentials.