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  • Program provides help for holidays

    Thanksgiving and Christmas are times of joy and cheer. The holidays are also an opportunity to help members of the Keesler family.Project Cheer is a charitable initiative coordinated and sponsored by the first sergeants council to help permanent party Airmen with families who are experiencing

  • Cop finishes training as medic 25 years after he joined Air Force

    A recent graduate of Keesler Medical Center's Aerospace Medical Apprentice Phase II course can serve as an inspiration to all Airmen. Staff Sgt. John Hathcock, 43, a member of the North Carolina Air National Guard, was among a class of 11 completing the six-week program. The other students were much

  • Keesler hockey enthusiasts hit the ice

    Steamy south Mississippi seems like an unlikely haven for ice hockey, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast Hockey League claims at least four active-duty Keesler Airmen among its most avid players.Many of the adults who hit the ice at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi on Sundays and select

  • Doctor able to help on flights

    "Is there a doctor on board?!" This is a plea an 81st Medical Group surgeon has responded to on three occasions while traveling aboard passenger aircraft.Maj. (Dr.) Yekaterina Karpitskaya's most recent in-flight emergency occurred Sept. 28. The major, an orthopedic surgeon with the 81st Surgical

  • DUI Slogan

    Gift card is prize for winner of DUI prevention slogan contest In observance of DUI Prevention Month in December, the 81st Training Wing and the 81st Medical Operations Squadron Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program are sponsoring a DUI Prevention Month slogan contest. Each flight

  • Wisconsin twins together at Keesler for technical training

    Twins Katherine and Elizabeth Stein, 19, grew up together in Wisconsin with six brothers and sisters, graduated together from high school in January and from Air Force National Guard basic training in April. The airmen first class are at Keesler together, too, in the aviation resource management