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  • EOC displays one team one fight mentality in response to COVID-19

    There’s a room in Wolfe Hall at Keesler Air Force Base that sits empty most days. Well, it used to sit empty until now.This room, the Emergency Operations Center, acts as the central hub of information whenever an incident or an exercise occurs on base.“Our main role is to help and assist the

  • Keesler remains transparent, strives to improve privatized housing

    In July 2019, the 81st Training Wing hosted housing forums to address the health, safety and quality concerns of military families living in base privatized housing.In the three months since the forums, representatives from the 81st TRW, Hunt Housing, 81st Medical Group, 81st Security Forces

  • Care in the Air: Active, Reserve exercise enhances medical transit

    The C-130J Super Hercules flight had one reality for the flight crew and a completely different training reality for the military medical professionals in the cargo hold of the same aircraft March 10.The 815th Airlift Squadron flight crew took off from Keesler Air Force Base flew to Lakeland,

  • Keesler, Biloxi host joint air show

    Keesler Air Force Base and the city of Biloxi, Miss., working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, have confirmed that the official date for “Thunder Over the Sound: The Keesler and Biloxi Air and Space Show” will be May 4, and 5, 2019. The event takes place over both KAFB and the Biloxi sound.

  • Rebuilding Tyndall: Keesler team helps restore base communications

    Total devastation. No power. No running water. The scene on the ground at Tyndall Air Force Base was a grim, 'post-apocalyptic' one when a five man team from Keesler's 85th Engineering Installation Squadron arrived in mid-October, just days after Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Gulf

  • Keesler, Gulf Coast communities celebrate Veterans Day

    Keesler leadership and base personnel participated in the 18th annual Gulf Coast Veterans Day parade celebration in Gulfport, Miss., Nov. 10. "It's an absolute honor to be a part of this parade today, and a part of this community," said Col. Lance Burnett, 81st Training Wing vice commander. "There's