Keesler's chaplain corps wins AETC awards Published Feb. 27, 2013 By Senior Airman Heather Heiney 81st Training Wing Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- Keesler's chaplain corps won one individual and one unit award in the 2012 Air Education and Training Command Chaplain Corps Annual Awards. Staff Sgt. Tomeka Gordon, 81st Training Wing chaplain's assistant, won outstanding chaplain assistant NCO. The 81st TRW Chaplain Corps won outstanding chaplain corps team in the large organization category. Gordon enhanced spirituality of deployed troops during her time in the Horn of Africa by completing 196 hours of religious support team visits to troops at forward operating locations. She completed 143 crisis intervention counseling sessions helping strengthen and focus troops to be fit to fight. She also assisted 100 children in an Ethiopian AIDS orphanage. The 81st TRW Chaplain Corps received an "excellent" rating in the 2012 AETC Consolidated Unit Inspection and was a key player in Keesler's selection as a finalist for the Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award. Members of the chaplain corps mentored 780 non-prior service students through weekly seminars. They also trained 1,100 new Airmen about suicide prevention through SafeTalk classes at the First Term Airmen's Center.