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  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "My kids are going back to school..."

    DEAR WING MA'AM: My kids are going back to school after an awesome summer. I can tell that they are excited and looking forward to going back.....as am I. Any suggestions on what I can do to make this transition smooth for all of us? ~#1 DadDEAR #1 DAD: The beginning of a new school year can be a

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "Our teen daughter is starting to date..."

    DEAR WING MA'AM: Our teen daughter is starting to date. Although I absolutely dreaded the idea of her dating, the day has come and I want to make sure I am preparing her and myself for this new stage in her life. ~ Colonel Daddy Dearest DEAR COLONEL DADDY DEAREST: Teen dating can be tough and not

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "Things are just not the same between us.."

    Dear Wing Ma'am,My husband recently returned from long deployment and things are just not the same between us. I don't know what to do. He's been home a month now, and I feel that I am already at my wits end and drowning in our marriage. I love him and want to make this work!! I want to save our

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "Too busy to spend time with each other..."

    DEAR WING MA'AM: The last couple years have been a whirlwind. With deployments, kids getting out of school, work schedules and everything in between, my husband and I have really become close roommates rather than a loving couple. It's starting to feel like we are too busy to spend time together,

  • Dear Wing Ma'am: "Works is getting stressful"

    DEAR WING MA'AM: Things at work are getting really unbearable. The ops tempo is at a break neck pace and it's starting to effect how I feel about my job. The pressure to meet deadlines and the workload is nuts! The other folks in my shop are starting to show it too. It's affecting my marriage and my

  • Dedicated to her country; dedicated to the mission

    Crowds of people forced their way through congested streets. As they hustled and bustled off to wherever they were heading, there was almost no sky overhead. The massive skyscrapers where people lived in small living quarters towered above. For one young girl, this is where she was born and raised;

  • Defenders challenge, complete

    And they're off! Two defenders sprint towards the ocean carrying a kayak and paddles. They jump into the kayak, paddle off and the Lt. Joseph Helton Defenders Challenge begins. Team-by-team, 36 defenders from the 6th Security Forces Squadron kayaked, ran, assembled and marched through a 10-part

  • DEFY teaches children to just say no

    Teaching children to say no to drugs is never easy. Helping them to resist peer pressure is equally as hard. But when a group of 14 volunteers from the Drug Education For Youth program came together last week at MacDill they did both. In an effort to raise awareness of the harmful effects of

  • Defying the odds: identical twins serve together

    The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot is 292 million to 1, which is more likely than the odds of twin brothers serving in the same military branch, at the same deployed location, in the same unit, while also performing the same job at the same time. This unlikely scenario is once in a lifetime

  • Delivering excellence: MacDill boom operators train for perfection

    There’s a saying in the Air Force about refueling aircraft, something along the lines of nothing accomplishes mission success without tanker aircraft gas. This saying rings true in Tampa. Refueling aircraft such as MacDill Air Force Base’s KC-135 Stratotanker are vital to mission success and keeping