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  • CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

    Promotions, prizes and popular name brands will anchor the efforts of Army and Air Force Exchange Service officials to invite military families to "rediscover the value" their exchange is offering this holiday season, a military story reported.Exclusive savings on holiday decorations, care package

  • Program provides help for holidays

    Thanksgiving and Christmas are times of joy and cheer. The holidays are also an opportunity to help members of the Keesler family.Project Cheer is a charitable initiative coordinated and sponsored by the first sergeants council to help permanent party Airmen with families who are experiencing

  • Christmas light display benefits holiday toy collection

    This year's Toys for Tots campaign continues through Dec. 14. Boxes are set up across the base for donations of new unwrapped boys. This year, in addition to the regular toy collection, Lt. Col. Scott Solomon plans a musical light display at his residence, 717 Vandenberg Drive in Bay Ridge housing

  • Cop finishes training as medic 25 years after he joined Air Force

    A recent graduate of Keesler Medical Center's Aerospace Medical Apprentice Phase II course can serve as an inspiration to all Airmen. Staff Sgt. John Hathcock, 43, a member of the North Carolina Air National Guard, was among a class of 11 completing the six-week program. The other students were much

  • 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