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  • Top tactical communications team demonstrates skills at Keesler

    The 54th Combat Communications Squadron, from the 5th Combat Communications Group stationed at Robins Air Force Base, GA arrived here April 25 to demonstrate their tactical communication capabilities to Keesler. The Best Large Communications and Information Unit in the Air Force for 2008, the 5th

  • Keesler welcomes athletes, supporters for Special Olympics Summer Games

    Friday kicks off the 2009 Mississippi States Special Olympics, which it has been held at Keesler Air Force Base since 1982, with a torch run expected to arrive at the white avenue gate at noon. The event will draw in excess of 1,300 athletes and coaches, as well as 3,000 volunteers, which is the

  • Keesler Medical Center Closes May 14-16 for electrical work

    Keesler Medical Center will be closed May 14-16 as contractors work on power lines. The process will cause a series of rolling blackouts throughout the medical center necessitating the closure. During the three-day period, contractors will sever power lines between a portion of the building slated

  • Volunteers in demand for Special Olympics

    Keesler is hosting this year's Mississippi State Special Olympics May 15-17. The base hosted Special Olympics for the first time in 1982. The event drew 350 participants. During this year's game, more than 1,000 athletes and coaches are expected to take part in the summer games. Even though many

  • Ultrasound course supervisor ends 32-year federal career

    Carolyn Teal was honored for 32 years of federal service at an April 23 retirement ceremony at Keesler Medical Center. Mrs. Teal ended her career as supervisor of the 81st Medical Operations Squadron diagnostic imaging flight ultrasound Phase II course. A native of Mobile, Ala., she entered civil

  • Keesler medics take aphresis services to Southwest Asia

    Apheresis service is also available in Southwest Asia. Capt. Robert Curtis, 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron, served as chief of apheresis during his deployment to Balad Air Base, Iraq, from September 2008-January 2009. At Keesler, he's chief of the laboratory pathology flight's