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  • 81st CPTS change of command

    Hometown: Foster, West Virginia Time in service: 12 yearsPrevious assignment: Chief, Budget Integration Branch, Ramstein AB, GermanyLeadership style: People-focused and team-driven.Role models: My father. He taught me the value of hard work and dedication.Goals for squadron: Continue to build on

  • Family advocacy offers supportive class for women

    The Keesler Family Advocacy Program is offering a special six-week class for women - "Fortify Your Life: A Class for Women." Family Advocacy outreach manager Paula Spooner, noted the lunchtime class is open to all women on base - active duty, retired, reservists, civilians, contractors and

  • 81st FSS change of command

    Hometown: San Antonio, TexasTime in service: 15 yearsPrevious assignment: Air Officer Commanding, Cadet Squadron 10, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.Leadership style: I am a hard-working, dedicated leader who has high expectations of the members in my unit. I am actively engaged, and hope to challenge

  • AETC commander tours Keesler

    Gen. Edward Rice Jr., commander of Air Education and Training Command, met with Keesler Airmen during a tour of the base June 10-11.During the visit, Rice, Chief Master Sgt. Gerardo Tapia, AETC command chief, and Teresa Rice, the commander's spouse, talked with groups of students and permanent party

  • 81st MDG graduates 39 physicians, dentists

    Thirty-nine physicians and dentists were honored June 11 during a formal graduation ceremony conducted in the Keesler Medical Center's Don Wylie Auditorium. The event marked their completion of internship and residency training.Retired Lt. Gen. Clark Griffith, former Air Education and Training

  • Media advisory: Operation Hero returns

    Keesler Air Force Base will host its bi-annual event, Operation Hero, at the corner of Second Street and E Street from 9-11 a.m., June 15.This event gives Keesler's dependent children an opportunity to experience what a deployment is like for their parents. Children will receive a pre-deployment