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  • Dragon Corner

    The 81st Training Wing's primary mission is to train Airmen and some of those Airmen are the newest additions to our team. Each week approximately 150 new Airmen arrive here from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. During their time at basic military training they have learned the basics of

  • C3: By Airmen for Airmen

    More than 70 years ago, Keesler Field began operations as a training base for the Army Air Corps. Over the last 70 years we have proudly produced more than one million Airmen who have served their country with pride and honor, providing the Air Force with necessary skills to ensure that we remain

  • Dragon Corner

    I know what you're saying...Just how many ropes do we have here at Keesler, and what do they all mean? Well, I can tell you that when I first arrived two years ago, it was a bit overwhelming trying to remember what colors there were and what they all stood for. However, the one thing you can be

  • Find a reason to quit

    I smoked my first cigarette on a random day during technical training, and I admit to my own dismay, it was completely because of peer pressure. Months later when the ritual became less of a bonding experience with my friends and more of a habit, I was confronted with the reality of my secretive

  • It's all about attitude

    Viktor Frankl, who was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor said, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." In his book, Man's Search for

  • Dragon Corner

    The mission of the 81st Training Wing is to train the best Airmen in the world. Our vision is "Training, Fighting, Winning." It takes the effort of every individual on base to develop the Airmen in training at Keesler Air Force Base. As members of the 81st TRW, we want to provide each of you with

  • Be legally ready for deployments

    Benjamin Franklin once said, "The only things certain in life are death and taxes," but for military members, we can add one more certainty, "death, taxes and deployment." At some point in our careers, we are going to deploy, and the legal office can make sure that you are "legally ready." It's wise

  • Comptroller comments on Cost Conscious Culture

    When I was told I would be Keesler's Cost Conscious Culture program manager, I honestly wasn't quite sure what to think. I first had to remind myself of what C3 stood for, and second, I had to figure out exactly what a base's C3 program manager was supposed to do. With a lot of support and

  • Keesler Blood Donor Center calls for AB blood donors

     The Keesler blood donor center asks all AB blood type donors to come forward and give blood.As universal plasma donors, AB donors are unique and play a vital role in saving lives. Many people don't know that group AB blood is a critical component used to treat patients during emergencies: fewer

  • His kind is that good

    The national news has been quite captivating lately. I'm referring to that astounding discovery of three young women - missing 10 years -- in an otherwise ordinary Cleveland suburb. Because abductions don't often result in such a positive outcome, this particular story was pretty wonderful. I just