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  • Keesler introduces space weather training in support of Space Force

    As the Air Force continues to maximize America's air, space and land power, Keesler initiated the new Space Weather Support Course to apply knowledge of the natural environment on space systems.The graduates of the course will take weather forecast beyond the atmosphere by understanding the weather

  • Fallen Warrior: A1C Darryl Winters

    Airman 1st Class Darryl Winters, combat cameraman from San Francisco, was killed in South Vietnam on July 19, 1966 while filming a strafing attack on a well-defended Viet Cong position a few miles west of Saigon, Vietnam. On the fateful day, Airman Winters was flying his 217th mission in the

  • Fallen Warrior: SSgt. Omar D. Flores

    Staff Sgt. Omar Flores was born in Mission, Texas in 1978. He graduated from high school in 1996 and enlisted in the active duty Army shortly thereafter as a 13B Cannon Crewmember at Fort Hood, Texas. He left active duty in June of 2000 and entered service in the Texas National Guard as a Personnel

  • Connecting the Air Force family

    As a young, enlisted Airman in training in the 81st Training Group, Chaplain (Capt.) Lavonia Winford, 81st TRG chaplain, served as a white rope in 2005, working as an advocate for both the chaplains and technical training students. Today, Winford embraces an environment of encouragement for her

  • Fallen Warrior: SSgt Luther Eugene Davis

    SSgt. Luther Eugene Davis was a pararescue specialist from Anderson County, Tennessee and served three tours in Vietnam. On April 15, 1970 during his final tour, Davis was participating in an aerial flight of an HH-3E helicopter(Jolly Green 27) of the 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron (now the