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  • Blue Star Museums offer free admission to military families

    The Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs is among more than 2,000 museums across the country that is offering free admission this summer to military families as part of the Blue Star Museums program.Free admission is offered to active-duty military personnel and their families, including

  • Wingman Week teaches spiritual, mental resiliency

    Keesler Airmen participated in different events to build resiliency and wingmanship throughout the base organizations June 8-12.Airmen were able to break from their daily jobs to focus on unit cohesion and wellness using the spiritual and mental domains of the Comprehensive Airman Fitness."In 2012,

  • Flag Day honors American history

    June 14 is Flag Day, a celebration of the history of the American flag and a time to remember proper etiquette for its display.Flag Day recognizes the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States 238 years ago on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress meeting in

  • 21 graduate from Airman Leadership School

    Seventeen senior airmen, two staff sergeants and two Coast Guardsmen graduated from Airman Leadership School May 19.Graduates from Class 15-4 are:81st Contracting Squadron - Senior Airman Ryan Wilson.81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron - Senior Airman Joshua Ellin.81st Logistics Readiness

  • 121 Keesler Airmen selected for promotion to technical sergeant

    Keesler had 121 names on the 2015 technical sergeant promotion list released June 9.Allen Lowery, 81st Force Support Squadron military personnel section chief, said 121 staff sergeants were selected from the 538 who were eligible this year, for a 22.49 percentage rate.Across Air Education and

  • Optometry clinic keeps mission in sight

    The 81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron optometry flight provides more than 640 patients from the 81st Training Wing, tenant units, retirees and dependents with services ranging from routine eye care to glasses repair and fittings each month. The eight personnel assigned to the flight provide high