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  • Fire department hosts live fire exercise

    Staff Sgt. Logan Knutson and Airman 1st Class Hannah Reichert, 81st Infrastructure Division firefighters, use a hand-held hose to extinguish a firefighter training aid during live fire exercise on the flightline June 7, 2017, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. The Keesler Fire Department, the Gulfport

  • Deployment exercise tests mission readiness

    Team Keesler tested its ability to maintain mission readiness with a deployment exercise here, Dec. 2-9, 2016. This base-wide exercise simulated a short-notice deployment for its defense chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive reactionary force team. “The 81st Medical Group was

  • 81st MDG tests readiness with public health exercise

    Airman Griffen Vincent, 336th Training Squadron student and exercise ‘patient’, waits as Heather Winterstein, 81st Medical Support Squadron contracts technician and Wing Inspection Team moulage team lead, applies makeup during a public health emergency exercise at Vandenberg Hall Sept. 21, 2016, on

  • Keesler survives hurricane exercise

    Airmen and civilians assigned to Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., participate in an incentive flight aboard a C-17 Globemaster III from Altus Air Force Base, Okla., Aug. 4, 2016. The incentive flight was part of a weeklong hurricane exercise to prepare Keesler for the current hurricane season. (U.S.

  • First responders exercise readiness

    The 81st Training Wing, 403rd Wing and outside agencies conducted an anti-hijacking exercise, June 21, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.A 403rd Wing WC-130J Super Hercules played the role of the hijacked aircraft where a crew member took hostages and taxied down the flight line in an attempt to take

  • Exercise prepares base for real world situations

    Senior Airman Codee Potts, 81st Infrastructure Division firefighter, prepares to use a fire hose during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive exercise scenario, April 21, 2016, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. The Force Protection Condition exercise scenario simulated an intruder