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Howard Altman - Managing Editor of The Military Times
Howard Altman

Managing Editor of The Military Times

Howard Altman covered the military and national security for the Tampa Bay Times until April 2019. He has won more than 50 journalism awards and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Beast, Philadelphia magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Observer, Newsday and many other publications around the world. He is currently the managing editor of The Military Times.

  1. ‘United States of Al’ mirrors life of Tampa Palms veteran, interpreter who saved his life
    Apr. 12, 2021• Military
    Afghan interpreter Hakimi Quadratullah, left, and then-Marine Lt. Col. Ty Edwards in Afghanistan.
  2. Kathy Castor holds sixth event honoring Vietnam era veterans
    Apr. 12, 2019• Military
    A unit of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment U.S. Marines, rests alongside a battered wall of Hue’s imperial palace after a battle for the Citadel in February 1968, during the Tet Offensive. The Marines reported heavy casualties in street fighting in the ancient capital city of Vietnam. (AP Photo)
  3. Gold Star wife commands a MacDill unit where she and her husband served together
    Apr. 12, 2019• Military
    On April 27, 2011, Air Force Maj. Raymond Estelle II was one of nine killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in an insider attack. Now his wife, Air Force Lt. Col. N?Keiba Estelle, has taken command of his old unit at MacDill Air Force Base, the 6th Communications Support Squadron. [OCTAVIO JONES | Times ]
  5. Pinellas Congressman Gus Bilirakis seeks videos from veterans suffering from burn pit exposure
    Apr. 8, 2019• Military
    A bulldozer dumps a load of trash into a burn pit just 300 yards from the runway at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in a 2012 photo. [Photo Credit: Mark Rankin]
  6. Epilogue: An Air Force brigadier general, Thomas E. Penick Jr. helped the area's most vulnerable as a judge
    Apr. 4, 2019• Military
    Thomas E. Penick Jr., worked to protect the area’s most vulnerable residents in his more than 25 years as a Pinellas-Pasco judge. He also was a retired Air Force general. He died last month at the age of 80.
  7. Howard Altman: A huge thanks to an amazing community
    Apr. 4, 2019• Military
    Howard Altman on assignment in Afghanistan in 2013. He will be leaving the Tampa Bay Times to join Military Times as their managing editor. [Times (2013)]
  8. Gov. DeSantis names Air Force Maj. Gen. James Eifert as new leader of troubled Florida National Guard
    Apr. 2, 2019• Military
    Air Force Maj. Gen. James Eifert was chosen by Gov. Ron DeSantis to assume command of the 12,000-strong Florida National Guard. He is scheduled to take charge from Army Maj. Gen. Michael Calhoun in a ceremony Saturday at Camp Blanding. [Courtesy of National Guard Bureau]
  9. From the Pentagon to SOCom: Army Gen. Richard Clarke takes over Special Operations Command
    Mar. 29, 2019• Military
    The new leader of U.S. Special Operations Command, Army Gen. Richard Clarke, speaks during Friday’s change of command ceremony at the Hilton Tampa Downtown hotel. SOCom is based at MacDill Air Force Base. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
  10. Investigations underway into sexual misconduct allegations at Florida National Guard
    Mar. 29, 2019• Military
    Units from the Florida National Guard were sent to the Florida Panhandle to help with the recovery from Hurricane Michael. A new leader of the guard is scheduled to be named just as an investigation into sexual misconduct there is underway. [Times (2018)]
  11. Meet CentCom's new boss: Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr. takes command
    Mar. 29, 2019• Military
    Marine Gen. Kenneth Mckenzie Jr. took over command of U.S. Central Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, in a change of command ceremony held Thursday at the Hilton Tampa Downtown hotel. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
  12. Retiring Gen. Joseph Votel recalls challenges of CentCom, the Middle East
    Mar. 27, 2019• Military
    Army Gen. Joseph Votel, center, speaks to sailors and Marines aboard the USS New Orleans, an amphibious transport dock ship, in this 2016 photo. [HOWARD ALTMAN | Times]
  13. Under Pentagon's rules, MacDill construction funds will be spared diversion to border wall
    Mar. 22, 2019• News
    MacDill Air Force base will need a new office and administration center to accommodate the personnel that come with additional KC-135 Stratotanker refueling jets assigned to the base. [Times (2017)]
  14. Health and financial woes continue for MacDill families dealing with mold in base housing
    Mar. 22, 2019• Military
    Traci Lenz said this is what her kitchen vent looked like even after mold remediation at her MacDill Air Force Base home.
  15. Reconnaissance jets moved to MacDill from base in Nebraska as snowmelt floods Midwest
    Mar. 21, 2019• Military
    An aerial view of Offutt Air Force Base and surrounding areas near Omaha, Neb., shows the affect of flood waters from rising rivers. [U.S. Air Force/TSgt. Rachelle Blake]
  16. MacDill Matters: Air Force innovation awards, and keeping the SS American Victory in Tampa
    Mar. 20, 2019• Military
    The SS American Victory docked at the Port of Tampa behind the Florida Aquarium [Luis Santana | Times (2010)]
  17. Town 'N Country post office renamed in honor of Air Force pilot who died in Iraq
    Mar. 18, 2019• Military
    Air Force Maj. Andreas “Andy” O’Keeffe, 37, was one of seven airmen killed last March in the crash of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter in Iraq. [Courtesy of Shan O’Keeffe]
  18. Tampa Bay area Muslims, mosques wary after New Zealand terror attacks
    Mar. 15, 2019• News
    People walk past a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office cruiser before Friday’s midday Jummah prayer at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay in Tampa. The Sheriff’s Office stepped up patrols and sent extra deputies following the terrorist attacks against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. [MONICA HERNDON | Times]
  19. Hero explains why so many Medals of Honor go to the Irish: 'We've been fighting for years and years'
    Mar. 15, 2019• Military
    Robert O’Malley, left, and James Bradley McCloughan each earned the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Vietnam War. They were guests of honor on Thursday night at the opening of the Irish Veterans Congressional Medal of Honor exhibit at the Tampa History Center. [HOWARD ALTMAN | Times]
  20. The Warrior Games are coming
    Mar. 14, 2019• Military
    Army Staff Sgt. Lauren Montoya, center, participates in a wheelchair basketball game during the Department of Defense Warrior Games preview Thursday at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa. Wheelchair basketball is one of a number of competitive sports in the Department of Defense Warrior Games Tampa Bay event scheduled for June.[OCTAVIO JONES | Times ]
  21. Tampa parents head to Italy for a memorial after death of their soldier son, who attended Plant High
    Mar. 12, 2019• Military
    Army Pvt. Peter Sebastian Cimino, 19, of Tampa, was found dead March 3 on a military base in Italy. He was remembered as a young man who loved fishing, God, pasta and cheese, and serving his country. [Blount and Curry Funeral Home, MacDill Chapter]
  22. Small solace for MacDill families, but mold problems are even worse across the Air Force
    Mar. 11, 2019• Military
    Amie Norquist says her family has suffered health problems from mold in their MacDill base housing. They had to get rid of mold-contaminated furniture, too, in an expensive move to a new home in Riverview. [Times]
  23. MacDill propels STEAM education with recruitment and community partnership in mind
    Mar. 8, 2019• Military
    Pierce Middle School sixth grader Anthony Kinloch, 11, gets help from the Air Force’s Porter Thorton as he tries on a protective suit used by the 6th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight Unit. Anthony joined some 2,300 students for a STEAM Day event at the base. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
  24. For a blink of an eye, Barbara Eden will be in Clearwater
    Mar. 8, 2019• Arts
    Bill Daily, Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman and Hayden Rorke star in ‘I Dream of Jeannie.’ Photo from Sony Pictures.