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  • Merger enhances capabilities to tell Keesler’s story

    Ask anyone in the 81st Training Wing's Public Affairs Office the best part of the move from the Taylor Logistics Center to Wall Studio last year, and the most likely response would be "windows" -- not the computer kind, but the glass kind. But the truth of the matter is the relocation of public

  • Disabled employees vital to Air Force’s mission

    The Air Force strives to raise awareness of programs for people with disabilities, not just during National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month in October, but throughout the year. Heather Williams, a Keesler civilian for more than two years, is one of 139,342 employees with disabilities

  • 81st Training Wing Quarterly Awards — July-September

    Airman -- Senior Airman Christopher Turknett, 81st Security Forces Squadron Noncommissioned officer -- Staff Sgt. Michael Cleveland, 81st Civil Engineering Squadron Senior NCO -- Master Sgt. Chad Heilman, 332nd Training Squadron Company grade officer -- Capt. Mildred Phillips, 81st Logistics

  • First new Bay Ridge homes occupied

    The completion of 34 Bay Ridge homes marks a new phase in Keesler's rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina left base housing in shambles. Currently more than 350 of the 1,028 new homes have been turned over to the base housing office. The Bay Ridge neighborhood will have 181 homes when

  • AFCEA teaching tools grants benefit four area schools

    Cynthia McWright, Gulfport High School; Jean Baucum, Biloxi High School; Patty Comer, Michel Seventh Grade School, Biloxi; and Penny Walton, Pass Road Elementary School, Gulfport, are the recipients of $1,000 teaching tools grants presented by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics