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  • Soccer playoffs begin Monday

    Playoffs begin Monday for the base's intramural soccer championship. Coaches met yesterday at Vandenberg Community Center to finalize the tournament format.Games were postponed earlier this week due for treatment of Keesler's soccer and softball fields with fertilizer, herbicide, and insecticide, so

  • Keesler teen benefits from camp experience

    One of the teens who attended last month's Air Force Teen Leadership Camp is Marshall Downing, 15, a sophomore at Biloxi High School.Marshall is the son of Vicki and Col. Glen Downing, 81st Training Wing vice commander."I learned useful leadership skills that can help me tremendously in the future

  • Deployed medics care for, bond with Soldiers

    When the Army goes on missions outside the wire, they are susceptible to any number of threats, ranging from extreme weather conditions and rocks being thrown at them to small arms fire and roadside bombs. Having well trained medical professionals attached to Army units ensures a quick response in

  • Good bullet writing makes big career impact

    In the Air Force, there are two types of bullets -- the kind loaded into a weapon system and the kind used to evaluate Airmen's performance.Good bullet writing can make an impact on both the supervisor writing the bullet and the person being evaluated."As supervisors, it builds our leadership

  • Military working dog receives historic, career-saving root canal

    A team from the 81st Dental Squadron recently performed a root canal on a valued member of the 81st Security Forces Squadron -- military working dog "Ziko." Veterinarian Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Joseph Harre, 81st Medical Support Squadron, oversaw the approximately two-hour procedure as second-year

  • Airman's experience underscores career cost of drinking, driving

    Six months ago, Senior Airman Steven Guerrero was Staff Sergeant Guerrero. Then he had a serious lapse of judgment and was stopped for driving under the influence of alcohol.The noncommissioned officer in charge of the 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron radiation oncology department recalled