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  • Camp Shelby's equal opportunity team comes to Keesler for additional training

    Soldiers and staff of Camp Shelby's 177th Armored Brigade equal opportunity team came to Keesler recently to further their goal of becoming better equal opportunity leaders and advisers for the brigade. Master Sgt. Maranda McCorvey, the brigade's equal opportunity adviser, approached Annie Davison,

  • Perfect student

    Senior Airman Neal Kirsch graduated from the electronic principles course in the 332nd Training Squadron with a perfect score. Airman Krisch, from Glenville, N.Y., continues his training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, in the instrument and flight control systems course.

  • New training pipeline set for combat weathermen

    A new Air Force specialty code will soon be available in the weather career field. However, even though the AFSC 1W032 is new, the career field for special operations weathermen isn't, according to Senior Master Sgt. Robert Silvernail, 335th Training Squadron. Creating a training pipeline for the

  • Keesler Online: Training courses now on Air Force's education domain

    In one keyboard stroke, Col. Greg Touhill, 81st Training Wing commander, ceremonially loaded the new Web site "Keesler Online," which is a new online library of technical training classes taught at Keesler. Keesler Online reached initial operational capability on the Air Force Education domain on

  • Transporters embrace 'green' initiatives

    According to the Energy Information Administration, the United States is the biggest polluting nation in the world. The U.S. has the highest greenhouse emissions and uses the most energy of any country, despite having a population one-fifth that of China. Despite these statistics -- or perhaps

  • Concrete crushing: Recycled materials used for road beds, fishing reefs

    The 81st Civil Engineer Squadron's concrete crushing program is making an impact on both the environment and the Air Force budget. The program began in 2001 as a joint partnership between 81st CES and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources to recycle concrete salvaged from on-base demolition