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  • Arts and Crafts Center may be your holiday shopping savior

    There are just a few shopping days left, and if there are a few names yet to cross off the shopping list, the MacDill Arts and Crafts Center may be able to help you "get 'er done."How about a Bombay Duck Charm Braclet - $3.50 to $6? What about hypo-allergenic earrings for about the same price?Maybe

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: I've been having a hard time falling

    DEAR WING MA'AM: I am working full-time, sometimes more. Usually, when I go to sleep, I can just put my head down and I'm out in less that 20 minutes. Lately, I've been having a hard time falling asleep and am having trouble keeping my energy up all day at work. I really don't want to use

  • Former AF flier brings message of 'victory over adversity' to MacDill

    Getting what you want out of life is about overcoming obstacles, the biggest of which can be those self-imposed barriers built on a foundation of complacency, fortified by doubt and hardened by an unwillingness to forgive.Such is the wisdom of one retired Air Force Col. Richard Toliver, who was at

  • Dear Wing Ma'am, "This is my first base and I don't know anyone"

    DEAR WING MA'AM: I'm new to the military and love it so far. I joined because I wanted to serve and liked the idea of being a part of something big! I like my job and am happy I got MacDill AFB. Problem is, I am lonely. This is my first base and I don't know anyone here. I haven't seen anyone from

  • Organization of WWII prisoners keep history alive

    Sacrifice is a part of war, in the course of which some die, some are injured and others lose their freedom and become prisoners of war.Such was the case during WWII for the prisoners of Oflag 64, Szubin, Poland. Members of the survivors group of some 1,400 prisoners incarcerated at the camp

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "She stays with him because she's afraid"

    DEAR WING MA'AM,My friend, Jennifer is married to a jerk. Her husband emotionally abuses her and she continues to put up with it. My husband and I used to spend a lot of time with them, but we have gradually cut her husband out of our circle because we can't tolerate the way he treats her. Jennifer

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "How do I deal with this deployment without going crazy?"

    Dear Wing Ma'am, My husband and I got married right before he was deployed. He's been gone almost a month, and I miss him so much already. I can't stop crying. He'll be gone for a year, and I have never been away from him for more than a few weeks time. I have a teddy bear he gave me on my birthday

  • Airmen, Sailors teach Afghans preventive medicine

    The goal of NATO leadership is to help build up Afghanistan's security forces to a total force of approximately 400,000 members. Theses ANSF will police their streets, defend their borders and protect their fellow citizens. But they can't do any of that if they don't know how to stay healthy.That's

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "I keep thinking there was something I missed..."

    Dear Wing Ma'am,I've been deployed six times now. I had no problems dealing with my deployments until the last one. Three days before we were suppose to redeploy, one of my troops committed suicide. It's been four months since he passed. I'm happy to be home with my family, welcomed back at work,