[Sweet_Sunflower29]

That sounds right, but for some reason I also had also associated MacDill with SAC (Strategic Air Command); although I thought that SAC headquarters were at Offutt, AFB in Nebraska.

In any case, for some reason, I associate the two. Now I've confused myself and I'll have to ask my dad for clairification.

[aristeides]

I hadn't focused on the fact in the story that young Bishop has asked a classmate about the location of Central Command on MacDill Air Force Base. CENTCOM was of course Tommy Franks's command, from which both the war in Afghanistan and later the war in Iraq were led.