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  • Families pull together when parents deploy

    Keesler News editorDealing with the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is kicked up a notch for the spouses of deployed Keesler members, especially those that have young children.For Senior Master Sgt. Thomas Cimenski and Lisa Hunte, just two of the spouses left behind with family

  • Keesler hockey enthusiasts hit the ice

    Steamy south Mississippi seems like an unlikely haven for ice hockey, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast Hockey League claims at least four active-duty Keesler Airmen among its most avid players.Many of the adults who hit the ice at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi on Sundays and select

  • Doctor able to help on flights

    "Is there a doctor on board?!" This is a plea an 81st Medical Group surgeon has responded to on three occasions while traveling aboard passenger aircraft.Maj. (Dr.) Yekaterina Karpitskaya's most recent in-flight emergency occurred Sept. 28. The major, an orthopedic surgeon with the 81st Surgical

  • Instructor still teaching after 6,000 hours in classroom

    Jeré Funk has been on her feet for 6,000 hours. Not continuously, of course. But just think: That's 250 days or 35 weeks or 8.3 months -- no matter how you count it, it's a long time standing in front of wide-eyed Airmen. So, though she found her job rewarding, Ms. Funk decided to retire a few years

  • Keesler nurse striving for 'doctor' designation

    Soon nurse Juanita Mullins can be called "doctor." Ms. Mullins, a clinical nurse with the 81st Surgical Operations Squadron post anesthesia care unit, is currently working on her doctorate in nursing practice at the University of South Alabama College of Nursing. "I am in the first class to be

  • Former Keesler enlisted medics earn nursing degrees, commisions

    Staff Sgt. Anna Crane returned to Keesler Medical Center Sept. 16 after an absence of almost two years to share a very special occasion with the people she used to work with here. She left the medical center's Family Birthing Center in December 2007 to attend the University of South Alabama School