Passing the torch
From left, Airmen Basic Gil Martinez and Jared Surprenant and Staff Sgt. Steven Gatlin, students in the 336th Training Squadron’s last radio communications operations course, are congratulated after the graduation ceremony by special guest Manuel Moreno, July 21 in Thomson Hall. Mr. Moreno, who had 57 years combined military and civil service before his retirement in 2005, was a military ground radio instructor from 1974-1980 and taught the personnel and communications operations course from 1980-1991 before returning to the radio course as an instructor from 1991-2005. In 61 years, about 15,000 radio operators have been trained at Keesler. The career field is merging into three new career fields — radio frequency transmissions, cyber surety or client systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)