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Keesler welcomes new unit commanders

Senior Airmen Patrick Castro and Kenneth Thomas, and 2nd Lts. Nicholas Konishi and Joshua Huckabee, listen to Lt. Col. Rashone Tate, 81st Communications Squadron commander, as she discusses the advancements in information technology by showing them a cellular device used today compared to an antiquated field communications radio used many years ago Aug. 24, 2012, at the 81st CS building, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Master Sgt. David Donnerstag, 81st Training Support Squadron first sergeant, reviews consolidated unit inspection preparations with Deborah Sterling, 81st TRSS commander, Aug. 23. 2012. at Matero Hall, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Lt. Col. Whitney McCloud, 333rd Training Squadron commander, and Maj. Wallace Reed, 333rd TRS director of operations, discuss shoring up squadron processes Aug. 23, 2012, at Stennis Hall, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Major Randall Davis, Marine Detachment Commanding Officer, addresses Marines at Alho Manor on the importance of physical fitness Aug. 15, 2012, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Navy Commander Jonathan Vorrath, Center For Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Keesler Commanding Officer, provides remarks to sailors during a graduation ceremony Sept. 7, 2012, at Allee Hall, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Members of the 81st Contracting Squadron Kimberley Alvarez, Maj. David Wilson II, commander, and Airman 1st Class Jacob Oakes discuss a current contract June 18, 2012, at the contracting office, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photos by Kemberly Groue)

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Master Sgt. Albrecco Jackson, 338th Training Squadron instructor supervisor, provides a tour of the radio frequency transmissions systems course equipment to Lt. Col. Michelle Carns, 338th TRS commander, Sept. 7, 2012, outside of Jones Hall, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)

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Lt. Col. Paul Griffin, 336th Training Squadron commander, gets acquainted with students in his squadron Sept. 6, 2012, as they set up air expeditionary force deployable training equipment used in the client systems course at Thompson Hall at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)

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Col. (Dr.) Michael Bashford, new 81st Surgical Operations Squadron commander, discusses staff scheduling with squadron superintendent Senior Master Sgt. Paula Eischen Sept. 11, 2012, at the Keesler Hospital, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Bashford succeeded Col. (Dr.) Joseph Giovannini during an Aug. 16 change of command ceremony. Prior to assuming command, Bashford was the 81st Medical Operations Squadron Genetics Flight commander and director of the USAF Medical Genetics Center at Keesler AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)

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Col. (Dr.) Lynn “Chad” Harris, new 81st Dental Squadron commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Gregory Schmidt, 81st DS superintendent, review documentation Sept. 11, 2012, at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., as the unit prepares for the Health Service Inspection by the Air Force Inspection Agency scheduled for Oct. 23-25 and AETC Consolidated Unit Inspection the following week . The colonel assumed command during an Aug. 9 ceremony. Harris succeeded Col. (Dr.) Nicholas Miniotis who was honored during a May 10 retirement ceremony for his 30 years of Air Force service. He is now an assistant professor at the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)

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Lt. Col. Maria Guevara, new 81st Medical Operations Squadron commander, left, reviews the daily emergency department report with ER nurse Capt. Nancy Vansandt Aug. 21, 2012, at the Keesler Hospital, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Guevara assumed command of the squadron July 18 from Col. Julia Stoshak who had led the unit since August 2010. The new commander comes to Keesler AFB after completing a year of Air War College at Air University, Maxwell AFB, Ala. In her prior assignment, she was the chief, Aeromedical Evacuation Control Team Division, 617th Air and Space Operation Center, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Stoshak has a new assignment at Andrews AFB, Md. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)

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Senior Airman Anna Jeffers, a nutrition care specialist with the 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron Nutritional Medicine Flight, explains the operation of the flight’s patient tray area to new squadron commander Col. Thomas Bacon July 24, 2012, at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. The section is responsible for preparing meal trays for patients on the inpatient units. Bacon took command of the squadron from Col. Richard McBride July 17. Prior to his current assignment, Bacon commanded the 81st MDTS at Vance AFB, Okla. McBride left Keesler to become director of the Armed Services Blood Program Office in Fairfax County, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)

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Col. Col. Jerry Lawson, new 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron commander, right, and Maj. William Tennyson, the squadron’s Critical Care Flight commander, discuss changes being requested to ensure the inpatient units in the new Back Bay Tower include state-of-the art patient safety elements, at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Lawson assumed command of the unit from Col. Susan Bassett July 12. Lawson comes to Keesler AFB from David Grant Medical Center at Travis AFB, Calif., where he was deputy chief nurse. Bassett left Keesler for Lackland AFB, Texas, where she will be 59th Medical Wing deputy chief nurse. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)

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Keesler welcomes new unit commanders

Published Sept. 11, 2012