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  • Comprehensive Airman fitness: mental health

    Editor's note: this is the first of four in a series on comprehensive Airman fitness.The goal of comprehensive Airmen fitness is to assist personnel in gaining and sustaining resiliency in the face of any adversity. To accomplish this, there are four pillars of fitness that Airmen and Air Force

  • Financial managment begins at Keesler

    As a training base, Keesler is the birthplace of many Air Force careers. The 335th Training Squadron instructs the beginnings of financial operations to Airman fresh from basic military training in a 51-day course.The course is broken into 10 blocks. Blocks 1-5 are dedicated to accounting and

  • Keesler medics attend Vibrant Response

    Twelve members of the 81st Medical Group traveled to Camp Atterbury, Ind., to support a week-long Army North exercise, Aug. 11-17.The exercise, Vibrant Response 13, validated joint-service response operations by testing defense chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and enhanced conventional

  • OSI, SFS host pistol shoot-out competition

    The 81st Security Forces Squadron and Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 407 hosted a second annual pistol shoot-off competition with federal and local law enforcement agencies Aug. 30, 2013, at the indoor firing range. Along with teams from Keesler's hosting offices, the event

  • C3 continues with new program manager

    With Staff Sgt. Amber Bell on permanent change of station orders, and the end of the fiscal year nearing, the Airmen's Cost Conscious Culture working group finds new leadership in Airman 1st Class Jonathan Lyew-Ayee.Bell, 81st Comptroller Squadron, passes the title of C3 program manager to

  • Keesler Airmen respond first

    While on a standard delivery to Gulfport Aug. 28, Staff Sgt. Ryan Kamplain and Airman 1st Class Blake Shell witnessed a sport utility vehicle blow out its rear tire and roll violently just a few hundred feet ahead.Kamplain and Shell, 81st Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle operators, reacted

  • Airman Portraits: Resilient family deals with multiple disasters

    Eight years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Disheveled and abandoned buildings, like skeletons from a time some would rather forget, line the coast. For others such as Julianne Bocek, they are a testament to her family's drive and resiliency when things appear to be at

  • TRICARE offers online options

    TRICARE Online is the Department of Defense's online patient-focused portal that provides access to available health-care services and information that supports patient participation in their health and health-care experience, including online appointments, prescription refills and "Blue Button"

  • Labor Day ends critical days of summer, risk remains

    Monday is the end of the Air Force's Critical Days of Summer campaign, but dangers still lurk in summertime's travel and recreational activities.The campaign began Memorial Day weekend and ends on Labor Day. Common recreational activities during this holiday include cookouts, swimming, camping, long

  • Spacy leaves his mark

    With Friday's change of command, Brig. Gen. Brad Spacy, 81st Training Wing commander, is departing Keesler for a new assignment, but his leadership over the past 15 months leaves behind countless achievements."General Spacy brought the wing the strategic vision it needed," said Col. Rene Romero,