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  • Keesler hosts SOMS 2017

    Keesler hosted more than 3,200 athletes, directors, coaches, family members and volunteers spanning over 16 regions across Mississippi for the 31st Annual Special Olympics Mississippi Summer Games. Founded in 1968, Special Olympics hosts sporting events around the world for people of all ages with

  • Boots vs. Badges starts off 2017 SOMS

    The ‘Boots’ team, made up of Keesler Airmen and Special Olympics athletes, pump each other up during the Boots vs. Badges volleyball game at the Blake Fitness Center, May 13, 2017, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Keesler Airmen competed against City of Biloxi police officers and firefighters as the

  • Dragons prep to host 2017 SOMS

    Keesler is set to host more than 700 athletes for this year’s Special Olympics Mississippi Summer Games, May 19-21, here.This year marks the 31st year the base has hosted athletes from across Mississippi as they compete to qualify for the national games.Jackie Pope, Keesler Airman and Family

  • Keesler medical resident takes home national title

    Maj. (Dr.) Jason Cromar, 81st Medical Operations Squadron resident, won the American College of Physicians National Competition in San Diego, Calif., with his Clinical Vignette Poster April 1.Not only did he and five other residents represent Keesler Medical Center, they also made up more than 50

  • A&FRC pampers spouses

    Barry Newman, sexual assault victim advocate, provides information about the sexual assault prevention and response program to Alana Trujillo, spouse of Staff Sgt. Javier Trujillo, 334th Training Squadron instructor, during Pamper Me Day at the Sablich Center May 4, 2017, on Keesler Air Force Base,

  • Keesler personnel participates in National Day of Prayer

    An attendee of the City of Biloxi’s 66th Annual Observance National Day of Prayer at Biloxi City Hall May 4, 2017, Biloxi, Miss., holds one of the programs associated with the event. The National Day of Prayer is an annual national observance dating back to a call in a joint resolution of Congress