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  • 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,

  • 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: "My best friend attempted suicide..."

    DEAR WING MA'AM, One of my best friends attempted suicide. "Josh" always seemed so happy that this has come as a shock to all of us. We are thankful he is alive, but we are unsure of how to behave around him. When Josh returns back to the shop, what should I say to him? How can we (his

  • Command chief retires after nearly three decades

    One week from today MacDill Air Force Base will celebrate the success and dedicated service of one of our great leaders. MacDill's Command Chief, Chief Master Sgt. Derrick D. Crowley, will retire after nearly three decades of extensive service to his country. Twenty nine years ago, Sept. 13, 1982,

  • 6th Ops Group veterans light up stories of bygone age

    Long before the unit we know today as the 6th Operations Group came to Florida, it had a very different mission in a very different location. The 6th Bombardment Group had been assigned to defend the Panama Canal, but was moved, on paper, during World War II back to the United States to prepare for

  • Honoring the legacy of Lt. Helton

    This past week I had the honor of leading the 2011 "Helton Haul" 5-K run named for the late 1st Lt. Joseph Helton. I was privileged to be flanked by his mother, Jiffy Helton. She was deeply moved by the tribute shown by members of the 6th Air Mobility Wing and Team MacDill in honor of her son. For

  • The Real Pirates - formerly of the Caribbean

    For a few short days recently, the pirate with skull and crossbones - the distinctive emblem of the 6th from long ago when it had been stationed in the Caribbean - rose from the past to relive a time when huge silver-gleaming bomber planes roared from a tiny island in the Pacific to help end World

  • Father and son captains cross paths at MacDill

    His father is Navy, as was his father, and his father before him, but the tide turned with Joseph Hinson the IV, who went Air Force.There are no hard feelings, though, said Navy Capt. Joseph Hinson the III, who is a Reservist assigned to Naval Forces Central Command and who last week had a chance