News - Tag MacDill AFB

Nov. 30, 2018
“She’s incredible, must be medical”

Senior Airman Amber Durrence, a 6th Medical Operations Squadron mental health technician at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., was named Air Mobility Command’s 2018 Mental Health Airman of the Year.
Nov. 5, 2018
MacDill’s military working dogs, handlers train at Adventure Island

Barking and splashing signifies military working dogs and their handlers from the 6th Security Forces Squadron navigating through obstacles during water aggression training at Adventure Island amusement park in Tampa, Oct. 29, 2018.
Oct. 26, 2018
Hangar turned hockey rink: Tampa Bay Lightning, MacDill service members play hockey

Two former Tampa Bay Lightning players, Mathieu Garon and Ruslan Fedotenko, ThunderBug, USAA volunteers, the Tampa Bay Lightning girls and the Lightning Street Team visited MacDill Air Force Base, Florida to give hockey lessons and show their appreciation for Team MacDill service members, Oct. 25,
Sept. 27, 2018
Airmen receive Gen. Larry O. Spencer Innovation Award during AFA ceremony

Capt. Michael Kanaan, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance enterprise lead, was presented with the Gen. Larry O. Spencer Award during the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Sept. 17, in National Harbor, Maryland.
Sept. 14, 2018
MacDill Total Force stays ready through operational readiness exercise

While ensuring 33 missions partners on MacDill have everything they need to succeed, the 6th Air Mobility Wing must remain operationally ready to accomplish their flying mission.
Sept. 6, 2018
MacDill ID card office adds new online service, reduces wait time

The 6th Force Support Squadron’s military personnel flight (MPF) serves a large military population that includes active-duty service members, reservists, dependents, retirees and civilian contractors.
Aug. 30, 2018
Why I serve: The Kalkbrenner family

As of 2017, approximately two million people currently serve in the U.S. military with millions of veterans serving before them in the several hundred year history of the country’s armed forces. All of these service members chose to don their respective service’s uniform for varying reasons. Many
Aug. 23, 2018
JB Charleston civic leaders tour MacDill AFB

Joint Base Charleston civic leaders, along with base leadership, toured MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, Aug. 16-17, 2018. Seventeen local civic leaders, who serve as conduits for leadership and advocates for the Air Force, flew on a JB Charleston C-17 Globemaster III to MacDill’s 6th Air Mobility
Aug. 15, 2018
MacDill by the Numbers

The men and women of the 6th AMW are a force capable of rapidly projecting air refueling power anywhere in the world. We are organized into five unique groups to carry out our mission to be America’s premier mobility team providing world-class air refueling, responsive airlift and airbase support to
Aug. 10, 2018
MacDill launches program, assists military women in transition to civilian life

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, is one of five sites participating in a new program called the Women’s Health Transition Pilot Program that launched in July 2018.