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  • Keesler accomplishes milestone in managing environmental risks

    Keesler officials declared the completion of the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Management System here June 12. This important milestone puts the base in step with an Air Force-wide initiative to proactively manage all environmental risks and incorporate an overall system that

  • Air Force research facility one of best in DOD

    An Air Force research facility received accolades as one of the best in the Department of Defense during a recent inspection. The inspection is part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs oversight responsibility for clinical investigation programs that use Defense

  • International media focus on C-17 training

    About 3,000 aircrew are trained annually at the Altus Air Force Base schoolhouse along with 15 to 35 international students from Singapore, Australia and the United Kingdom. Australian TV Channel 9 focused their camera on 12 Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules and CC08 Caribou pilots and

  • Keesler newcomers face family housing hurdles

    As Keesler Air Force Base struggles with housing shortages from Hurricane Katrina's wake, Airmen with dependents being assigned here need to have a plan before they leave their current assignment. Due to Katrina, permission for servicemembers to bring their dependents to Keesler has become much like

  • Keesler NCO Academy class helps rebuild storm-damaged homes

    At least three Biloxi, Miss., families will remember the students from Keesler's NCO Academy for the rest of their lives. Thirty students from the academy volunteered more than 250 hours to help rebuild three homes in Biloxi that were damaged by Katrina in 2005. Tech. Sgt. Susanna Voorhies, from the

  • C-130 aircrew students' on-time graduation rate back on track

    Timing is everything, especially when it comes to making sure C-130 aircrews get warfighters the "beans and bullets" they need to fight the Global War On Terrorism. But supplying these aircrews to the fight has been a challenge until recent changes to how Little Rock Air Force Base trains them. With

  • AETC deploys new pilot screening test for FY07

    Air Education and Training Command officials here announced they will field a new psychomotor skills test to be required of all candidates meeting pilot selection boards after October 1. The replacement of the existing Basic Aptitude Test with the new Test of Basic Aviation Skills represents an AETC

  • Summer 'Air and Space Power Journal' available

    The College for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education at Air University has published and distributed the Summer 2006 English edition of the Air Force's professional journal, "Air and Space Power Journal." The journal serves as an open forum for the presentation and stimulation of innovative

  • Air Force's only C-130 training squadron stands up here

    The first stop C-130 aircrew members will make in the training pipeline before operating the "Herk" is the newly created 714th Training Squadron here. Lt. Col. Thomas Anderson assumed command of the squadron from Col. Andy Hamilton, 314th Operations Group commander, in a ceremony June 5 in the

  • Initial Flight Screening contract awarded

    Air Force officials here announced May 30 that Doss Aviation, Inc., of Colorado Springs, Colo., has been officially awarded the Initial Flight Screening contract after the completion of an Air Force environmental assessment. In February, the Air Force announced its intent to award a 10 year, $178