Keesler 2010: Photographic year in review
Senior Airman Brandon Ailes, fifth from right, is flanked by Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Defense Commissary Agency, Keesler and community leaders as he cuts the ribbon on the base’s new shopping mall Tuesday. Airman Ailes, 81st
Medical Operations Squadron, is Keesler’s Airman of the Year. The new shopping complex replaced the main exchange and commissary devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Other new facilities that opened in 2010 included an event center, student dormitory, fire station, munitions storage facility, radiation oncology center, trainer development building and a central energy plant at the hospital. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)