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  • 403rd Wing reservists depart for deployment training

    About 30 reservists with the 403rd Security Forces Squadron departed for Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, today for combat and expeditionary skills training in preparation for their deployment to Southwest Asia next month.This group is the second wave of 403rd SFS Airmen to head to Nevada for the

  • 403rd Wing aging assets on the way out

    Pallets of computers, both desktops and laptops, can be found in the secured cage area of the 403rd Communications Flight waiting to be turned over to their new users.For Tech. Sgt. Joshua Smith, the 403rd CF equipment control officer, this is about half of the computers coming in to replace the

  • Airman Files -- Master Sgt. Paul Martin

    Master Sgt. Martin joined the 403rd Wing in 1998. Martin's proudest moment with the Wing was when he served as a safety board member for an aircraft incident safety investigation, where a 403rd aircraft was involved in an incident in the Central Command area of responsibility. Martin used his

  • 403rd reservists can nominate their civilian employers for Freedom Award

    403rd Wing reservists have until Jan. 19 to nominate their civilian employer for the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.The annual freedom award is the highest recognition that the United States government can give to employers of service members who are serving in the National

  • Reservist encourages learning through robotics

    When Lt. Col. Frank Poukner isn't flying an aircraft into a hurricane to collect weather data for the National Hurricane Center, he devotes part of his free time to encourage Mississippi Gulf Coast youth to take an interest in science and math by working with Legos.This was the case Nov. 8 when he

  • 403rd Wing fails to clinch Keesler championship

    The 403rd flag football squad met their match Nov. 4 when they played against the Young Guns from the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi on the Keesler Air Force Base football fields during the finals of the Keesler flag football playoffs.The Young Guns feel that their key

  • 403rd Wing members compete to be named Ultimate Warriors

    The Triangle Track was unusually busy for a Saturday afternoon Nov 1 as the 403rd Wing Human Resources Development Council prepared to kick off the 2014 Ultimate Warrior Challenge during the November Unit Training Assembly.Staff Sgt. Karen Moore, loadmaster/dropsonde operator for the 53rd Weather

  • Airman Files -- Capt. Elvis Ta

    Capt. Elvis Ta joined the 403rd Wing in 1998. Ta's proudest moment while serving with the 403rd was when he received his commission. A specific moment when Ta's contribution made the wing a better place was while teaching an EO human relations class. After class finished, an Airman who had been