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  • 19 senior airmen graduate from ALS

    Nineteen senior airmen in Airman Leadership School Class 14-6 graduated Sept. 4.Graduates are:81st Dental Squadron - Cheryl Davis and Madison Rossi (distinguished graduate).81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron - Justin Keune (commandant's award) and Laquita Moore.81st Force Support Squadron -

  • Keesler medic celebrates weight loss milestone

    August 16 was a special anniversary for Courtney Tillman. It marked one year since she began a weight-loss campaign during which, to date, she has shed almost 160 pounds.Tillman, an Intensive Care Unit monitor technician with the 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron, weighed 355 pounds when she began

  • Keesler visitor celebrates 100th birthday

    This Labor Day, Keesler remembered the civilian workforce that built the base during World War II through the memories of one of its first employees who celebrated her 100th birthday Sept. 1.When she visited the base Aug. 26, Idella Urie's blue eyes sparkled as she described Keesler Field in 1942, a

  • Team Keesler, local community honor forgotten hero

    A "Forgotten Hero" ceremony was held for Pierre David Junod, a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, Aug. 18, at the Biloxi National Cemetery.Although Junod, a 66-year-old Buffalo, New York, native, had no immediate family, more than a hundred military and civilian members of the

  • Retired nurses explore Keesler Medical Center

    Sixteen members of the Air Force Society of Retired Nurses toured Keesler Medical Center and viewed a special program arranged for their visit Aug. 22.The group included two nurses who were among medics accompanying U.S. prisoners of war on flights from Hanoi and Saigon as they were repatriated

  • OSI tip line allows people to submit anonymously

    Reporting something suspicious on Keesler just got easier with the introduction of an anonymous tip line."The tip line allows the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to receive and process anonymous tips on anything from drugs and theft to sexual assault and terrorist activities affecting