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  • Could you be the next AMC Icon?

    Air Mobility Command is searching for the next AMC Icon. The AMC Icon program is loosely based around the hit TV program, American Idol. All AMC installations will conduct base level talent shows during July and August. Local contestants compete for $1,000 in cash prizes. The top finishing Air Force

  • Special Victims Counsel available here for victims of sexual assault

    Earlier this year, the Air Force spearheaded a pilot program for the Department of Defense which provides special counsel to victims of sexual assault.The Special Victims Counsel is currently composed of 60 specially-trained military lawyers.The SVC Program gives sexual assault victims legal

  • Logistics Airmen own the night during joint-service training

    A joint-coalition team led by the 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron peers into a dark, moonless sky in preparation for a nighttime helicopter sling load mission. All of their other senses are heightened to compensate for the reduced visibility as a UH-60 Black Hawk flown by Soldiers

  • NOAA Unmanned Aerial Systems

    While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aircraft Operations Center is most often associated with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, many other important missions are also conducted from MacDill, especially with the new addition of Unmanned Aerial Systems."The arrival of Unmanned Aerial

  • Cheating Death: A Story about Second Chances

    May 27, 2012, is a day Tech. Sgt. Mark Hopkins will never forget--even though it's a day he can barely remember.It was the day he made a choice that drastically altered his life forever, and almost ended it in the process."All I remember is hopping on my motorcycle around noon on my way to hang out

  • Flying medics provide humanitarian relief

    It had all the appearances of being a routine 'bandage' mission for the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron as it landed at Camp Bastion May 27.A regular part of the missions flown by the 455th EAES, 'bandage' missions transport servicemembers to facilities that can provide treatment

  • Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention; Airman seeks change ASAP

    People of all ages, races, economic backgrounds, sexualities, and lifestyles have been victims. Males as well as females can be victims.After being given an opportunity to train as a volunteer victim advocate when first arriving to MacDill Air Force Base last year, Airman 1st Class Travis Lockwood,

  • CAF Social Pillar: TLR Rocks Special Olympics

    "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." The Harding University football stadium echoed with the above words as thousands of athletes and their supporters flocked to Searcy, Ark., to compete in the Arkansas Summer Special Olympics May 23 - 25. Among the competitors was a

  • 'The Griffin' releases Maintenance Operations Management

    The 367th Training Support Squadron, "The Griffin", released Maintenance Operations Management, an interactive multimedia instruction course for maintenance managers.The Griffin has completed and uploaded Maintenance Operations Management (MOM) to ADLS this week. With more than 8,000 hours of

  • EC prepares senior leaders with expeditionary mission support training

    A class of 17 commanders and superintendents recently completed the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's three-day Expeditionary Mission Support Group Senior Leaders Course here.The EMSG course is designed for mission support group commanders and superintendents who are tasked to deploy to various