MacDill Air Force Base
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MacDill Air Force Base is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida.
The main gate at MacDill AFB, with a KC-135R Stratotanker overhead.
Colonel Leslie MacDill
A 1943 MacDill Field large-letter postcard, Curt Teich Company
The Thunderbird, a quarterly magazine that was printed at MacDill Army Air Field, Summer 1944 edition
The United States Special Operations Command is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force o
MacDill Air Force Base
…is home to the headquarters for two of the U.S. military's unified combatant commands: Headquarters, United States Central Command, and Headquarters, United States Special Operations Command. Both commands are independent from one another and each is commanded by a respective four-star general or admiral. Two additional subunified commands…
Senator Barry Goldwater, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1986
General James Lindsay, the first Commander in Chief, Special Operations Command in 1986
MH-60 landing on Hercules (c. 1 June 1988)
One of two Iranian oil platforms set ablaze after shelling by American destroyers (19 October 1987)