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  • Instructor earns AETC safety award

    Tech. Sgt. Christina Bur-kett, safety representative for the 336th Training Squadron, is Air Education and Training Command's ground safety award winner for the July-September quarter of 2009. Sergeant Burkett, a knowledge operations management instructor, authored pre- and post-hurricane briefings

  • Keesler captain wins annual award at Little Rock

    Capt. Jason Eddy may be assigned to Keesler, but he's made himself known at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., as the 314th Airlift Wing's company grade officer of the year.In addition, his Keesler unit, the 45th Airlift Squadron, captured the 2009 Air Education and Training Command's flying safety

  • Tech controllers bid farewell to AFSC

    On Jan. 26, Snoopy finally retired. He was 50 years old and boasted a long, successful career.Snoopy went down fighting, of course -- he was a good, brave Airman. He served a long time as the mascot for tech controllers, but now he has to let go of his career field because it has evolved into a

  • New shopping complex opens April 6

    The April 6 grand opening for the new $60 million base exchange and commissary is sure to interest plenty of local shoppers, and for good reason: It's been a long time coming, thanks to the uninvited appearance of an infamous lady named Katrina. It took almost five years to sweep out her mess, but

  • Basketball signals revival of youth sports

    About 5½ years ago, Keesler boasted a thriving youth sports program. But when Hurricane Katrina devastated the base and much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the storm also wiped out Keesler's youth sports program."We lost many of our children to downtown youth programs," said Master Sgt. Ramon

  • Disaster simulation enhances preparation of 81st AMDS medic

    Members of the 81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron bioenvironmental health flight recently participated in the Air Education and Training Command Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Challenge."The challenge was a four-day workshop that provided emergency responders with an opportunity to employ