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  • FEMA administrator visits Keesler to meet with Hurricane Hunters

    Craig Fugate, Federal Emer-gency Management Agency administrator, visited the Air Force Reserve Command's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Keesler April 29 to address hurricane preparedness as the June 1 storm season approaches."The Air Force does a lot for FEMA," Mr. Fugate told the 53rd WRS

  • Radio frequency transmission systems course graduates 1st class

    The 338th Training Squad-ron marked the beginning of another Air Force era with the first graduation of the 3D133 radio frequency transmission systems course April 29.Fourteen graduates and one distinguished graduate completed the 15-week course that began Jan. 5. The new course aligns with the Air

  • Scholarships awarded at CCAF graduation

    Seven students received scholarships at the spring commencement ceremony for the Community College of the Air Force April 27. Three graduates received Pitsenbarger Awards for top enlisted personnel who plan to pursue a baccalaureate degree. Certificates and $400 checks were presented to:Staff Sgt.

  • Special operations weather course has 1st graduate

    Airman 1st Class Sampson Graham, 19, is the first and only graduate so far of the 30-week special operations weather forecaster course in the 335th Training Squadron for the new Air Force specialty code 1W0W2.SOWT forecasters are components of the Air Force's special tactics teams and are attached

  • Airman heads to Air Force Academy in June

    Airman 1st Class Shuai Yuan is closer to his longtime goal of becoming an Air Force pilot. He has been accepted to attend the Air Force Academy. The 81st Dental Squadron dental technician learned of his selection in mid-April when his squadron commander, Col. (Dr.) John Embry, called the squadron

  • Keesler medic receives Purple Heart

    Master Sgt. Kenneth Gestring, 81st Surgical Operations Squadron, was honored Tuesday with the Purple Heart for wounds he suffered while deployed to Afghanistan.Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Kory Cornum, 81st Medical Group commander, pinned the award on Sergeant Gestring during a ceremony in the hospital's Don