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  • Hurricane Hunters “Roll Out” for 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

    As part of the “Roll Out,” the Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and 403rd Wing maintenance and support personnel based at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., prepositioned aircraft parts, tools, and communication systems at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands,

  • Flying Tropical Storm Dorian

    Three WC-103J’s and one C-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the 403rd Wing departed Keesler Air Force Base Monday for Curaçao to provide weather reconnaissance support for Tropical Storm Dorian.

  • Keesler, Biloxi finalize airshow performers

    Aerial Performances: **Not listed in order of performance**U.S. Air Force ThunderbirdsTeam Aeroshell – 4 x AT-6DArmy Special Ops – Black Daggers Alabama Boys – Decathlon & CubTwin Tigers – 2 x Yak 55s Jeremy Holt – Pegasus Bi-PlaneWild Blue Rodeo – RV-8 Scott Francis – MXS P-40P-51 – Quick Silver

  • The science of learning: NASA brings Gulf Coast educators to Keesler

    The 335th Training Squadron and the 403rd Wing Hurricane Hunters hosted a NASA Educator Workshop here March 30. More than 18 educators from Mississippi and Louisiana along with Stennis Space Center NASA education specialists came here to learn diverse ways of teaching and gain resources to take back

  • First responders exercise readiness

    The 81st Training Wing, 403rd Wing and outside agencies conducted an anti-hijacking exercise, June 21, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.A 403rd Wing WC-130J Super Hercules played the role of the hijacked aircraft where a crew member took hostages and taxied down the flight line in an attempt to take