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  • Contracting everything but COVID-19

    “Sometimes contracting can get a bad rap because we stand back so people can figure out what they need and then they can come talk to us,” said Jeni Hornbeck, 81st Contracting Squadron base operating support contract specialist. “But we did not take that approach this time. We really tried to

  • EOC displays one team one fight mentality in response to COVID-19

    There’s a room in Wolfe Hall at Keesler Air Force Base that sits empty most days. Well, it used to sit empty until now.This room, the Emergency Operations Center, acts as the central hub of information whenever an incident or an exercise occurs on base.“Our main role is to help and assist the

  • Keesler aids USS Tripoli in COVID-19

    Keesler Medical Center has been assisting the U.S. Navy in testing and housing Sailors from the USS Tripoli in Keesler’s quarantine and isolation facility for COVID-19, June 30 – July 18.Keesler Medical Center hosts the Defense Department’s only genetics lab and plays a critical role in analysis and

  • First Airmen graduate BMT proof of concept at Keesler

    For the first time since 1968, a flight of nearly 60 Airmen graduated U.S. Air Force basic military training outside of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A flight of nearly 60 Airmen from the 37th Training Wing Detachment 5 marched across the Levitow Training Support Facility drill pad here May