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MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) (IATA: MCF, ICAO: KMCF, FAA LID: MCF) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida. The "host wing" for MacDill AFB is the 6th Air Refueling Wing (6 ARW), assigned to the Eighteenth Air Force of the Air Mobility Command .
The United States Marine Corps Forces Central Command is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The Marine Corps Force Central Command is responsible for all Marine Corps Forces in the United States Central Command, except for those assigned to the U.S. Special Operations Command, and Special Operations Command, Central Command.
On 21 December 2021, the Secretary of the Air Force announced that the 6 ARW would become Main Operating Base 6 (MOB 6) for the new KC-46A Pegasus air refueling aircraft, eventually replacing the extant twenty-four (24) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft at MacDill AFB with an equal number of KC-46A aircraft. Arrival of the first KC-46A at MacDill ...
The 6th Operations Group (6 OG) is the operational flying component of the 6th Air Refueling Wing, stationed at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.. The mission of the 6th OG is the planning and executing global aerial refueling, combatant commander airlift, and specialized missions for US and allied combat and support aircraft.
The command is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. SOCCENT FWD (formerly known as Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command) is located at Al Udeid in Qatar . The Command's motto is Molon labe [ 3 ] ( Greek for "Come and take them", said by King Leonidas I of Sparta before the Battle of Thermopylae in response ...
The United States Space Forces – Central (USSPACEFOR-CENT) is the United States Space Force component field command to the United States Central Command.Headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, it plans, coordinates, supports, and conducts employment of space operations across the full range of military operations, including security cooperation, in support of the combatant command ...
The 598th Range Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 23d Fighter Group and is stationed at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida where it replaced Detachment 1, 23d Fighter Group on 22 September 2015. The squadron also operates the Deployed Unit Complex at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, 1 November 1952; Sidi Slimane Air Base, French Morocco, 28 May 1953 – 8 January 1958; MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, 8 May 1962 – 1 July 1971 (deployed to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 4 April – 10 August 1965) Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, 1 October 1973 – 30 September 1994