Traffic is being diverted from the Dale Mabry gate as MacDill Air Force Base investigates a suspicious package.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 MacDill Air Force Base<\/a> is investigating a suspicious package Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n Traffic is being diverted from the Dale Mabry gate to the Bayshore gate as emergency crews remain on scene.<\/p>\n The base is not on lockdown during the investigation.<\/p>\n This comes as MacDill AFB mourns the loss<\/a> of three U.S. airmen killed when a refueling aircraft crashed<\/a> on March 12 during a combat mission in western Iraq.<\/p>\n Saturday evening, the 6th Air Refueling Wing identified the crew as Major Alex Klinner, Captain Ariana Savino, and Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n The airmen were stationed at Sumpter Smith Joint National Guard Base, in Birmingham, Alabama and assigned to MacDill\u2019s 6th Air Refueling Wing.<\/p>\n The three had been deployed for less than a week, a source tells 10 Tampa Bay News.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic is being diverted from the Dale Mabry gate as MacDill Air Force Base investigates a suspicious package.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-193708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}