Talk:MacDill Air Force Base

MacDill closed?

Has MacDill AFB ceased operations? I only ask because all the runways are closed on Google Earth (although not on Google maps). Could someone confirm if this is the case, and also why this has happened? bjelleklang 16:55, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Reply: MacDill is open for sure. Also, there was NO SNOW in 2000 anywhere in Florida, certainly not in Tampa.

There was a period of time during the early 2000's that the runways were undergoing a major rehabilitation project and had to be shut down for a short while. Perhaps the Google Earth snapshots were taken during that time. All construction work on the runways have since been completed. Wslupecki 20:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

MacDill Lightning: High Voltage!

Spec about where this came from should start with the guy who coined it, who was at the time the wing exec but had previously worked in the 91st ARS. The 91st has used as its call sign BOLT since moving to MacDill in 1996. There's no lightning depicted on current or former squadron patches, and it's tough to imagine the squadron would have picked BOLT based on the Lightning, who sucked until quite recently, rather than picking, say, BUC or something similar (unless that was already registered). In any event, our squadron communications always refer to us collectively as "the Bolts," and I'm fairly sure Mark was coming from that direction when he came up with the slogan. Just a thought. I was laughing when I read this part of the article; I really don't think the wing slogan is particularly encyclopedic, nor the fact that many of the wing's airmen dislike the slogan (which is true enough, though it would have been true of ANY slogan, just as it was true of "World Class", which preceeded it), but what the hell, it's funny.

Rewritten

Updated the article with much more information. Kept the good stuff from the previous version. I'm looking for some SAC photos of MacDill - can't find them yet. might have to take a trip to Maxwell and spend a day there. If I find some I'll add them later...

Bwmoll3 18:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Tag & Assess 2008

A very good article spoilt by no refs Jim Sweeney (talk) 10:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

HQ?

I see nothing where the USSOCOM is mentioned, even though their HQ is there. Could someone help me with this? Thanks. Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 21:09, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Unbalanced?

Is it not a big deal that CENTCOM is based there? I don't know much about the military, but that seems like it would be pretty important. If it is, it should be in the lead and it should be given more than a passing mention in the body, as it is now. Recury (talk) 19:11, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

177th Temporal Recon Unit. 13 October 2028 – present?

What? What exactly is this temporal recon unit?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.176.221.203 (talk) 01:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

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