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  • Medical center honors volunteers

    Keesler Medical Center recognized 54 people at its annual volunteer services awards luncheon June 12 at the Dragon's Lair. Cumulatively, they contributed more than 740 years of assistance to the medical center. Certificates were given to: One year or less -- David Clark, Charlotte Costine, Bonnie

  • 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

  • Dragon of the Week

    Name -- Tech. Sgt. Curtis Robertson Unit -- 334th Training Squadron Position -- acting superintendent, air traffic control training flight Time in Air Force -- 16 years Time at Keesler -- almost three years Noteworthy -- completed master's degree in education at University of Southern Mississippi in

  • 90 Keesler staff sergeants selected for promotion

    Ninety Keesler staff sergeants have been selected for promotion to technical sergeant. The Air Force Personnel Center said 7,724 were selected out of 37,172 eligible staff sergeants for a selection rate of 20.78 percent. The average time in grade was 5.68 years and the average time in service was

  • Efforts by small class have significant results

    A class of seven weather students in the 335th Training Squadron raised $3,160 through hot dog and hamburger sales to support scholarships for Kamp Kaleidoscope, the only camp of its kind in Mississippi for autistic children. Staff Sgt. Cynthia Reeves, their instructor, said the two-week camp for

  • 3 picked for nurse commissioning program

    Three Keesler members were recently selected for the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program. Senior Airman Shandrika Smith, 81st Medical Operations Squadron, and Staff Sgts. Brian King, 81st Surgical Operations Squadron, and Joshua Baker, 338th Training Squadron, begin the two-year program in