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  • Use caution in runway vicinity

    Walking across the runway or ignoring the flashing lights on Ploesti Drive can have dangerous or even fatal consequences.Individuals participating in this unsafe activity can expect to be picked up by base operations and transferred to security forces for questioning, said Justin Cooper, chief of

  • 2nd Air Force team comes to aid of needy family

    Thanks to the 602nd Training Group (Provisional) and 2nd Air Force headquarters, a local family enjoyed Christmas in the truest sense.As the duty day wound to a close on Christmas Eve, air expeditionary force Airmen deployed to Keesler with the 602nd TRG(P) learned of a 14-year old boy who called a

  • Keesler's Navy unit recognized for community service programs

    The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit at Keesler was recently recognized for outstanding community service by Rear Adm. T.G. Alexander, commander of Navy Region Southeast. CNATTU earned the region's first place award with its Campaign Drug Free flagship. "Flagship" refers to programs

  • Paths of Keesler colleagues intersect in Iraq

    For two Air Force commanders the transition from home station to Iraq has been about utilizing all available resources to accomplish the mission. Lt. Col. Steven Ramsay and Lt. Col. Abbie Luck are both deployed to Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Both serve

  • Aircraft maintenancefacility dedicated Friday

    Team Keesler celebrated the life and time of retired Col. Lawrence Roberts Friday with a ceremony dedicating the 403 Wing's consolidated aircraft maintenance facility in his honor. The new $22.6 million structure is used to perform maintenance on equipment for aircraft of the 53rd Weather

  • Last pre-Katrina homes being leveled

    Demolition of the 106 homes in the South Pinehaven family housing area, the last family dwellings that existed at Keesler before Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago, continues until mid-September. Dave Horner of the base's program management office said construction of Keesler's homes, the