Parades take center stage

This year, Mardi Gras Day is Feb. 21. Keesler units marching in specific parades are listed. Area code for phone numbers is 228.Feb. 4Ocean Springs Elks, 1 p.m.; 872-2501; honor guard and 50-flag team. Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 2nd Air Force commander, has been invited to ride in the parade with

81st SFS wins two individual Air Force-level awards for 2011

Members of the 81st Security Forces Squadron won two Air Force-level awards for fiscal year 2011.Senior Airman Angelo Banks won Air Force Security Forces support staff Airman of the year. While deployed at the transit center at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, he secured $451 million in assets, 90 combat

2nd Air Force’s command chief gets acquainted with Keesler

CNATTU wins two 2011 Navy service awards

Keesler's Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit recently won two Navy community service awards for 2011 in the medium shore category.The awards included the health, safety and fitness flagship award and the campaign drug-free flagship award. Last year, CNATTU Keesler won the personal

Key Spouses make volunteering a profession

On the Gulf Coast and particularly Biloxi, the lighthouse has taken on multiple figurative meanings -- light in a world of darkness, a guide through stormy, murky circumstances, an answer to a call for help. That spirit can often be seen in the people of the Gulf Coast as well. Here at Keesler, one

Keesler's recycling program turns 2011 trash into treasure

Keesler's aggressive recycling program returned $176,322 in proceeds to the base by diverting nearly 40 percent of its waste from landfills in 2011.Keesler began 2011 with a 25.4 diversion rate and proceeds of $27,208 in the first three months of the year, said Doug Smith, Keesler's project manager