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  • 403rd Wing honors new staff sergeants and master sergeants

    Sunday the 403rd Wing’s newest staff sergeants and master sergeants stepped up to the next tier of their careers by becoming noncommissioned and senior noncommissioned officers. These new leaders were honored in a ceremony at the Roberts Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance facility that included the

  • 403rd Wing announces quarterly award winners

    Sunday the 403rd Wing announced its quarterly award winners for the July 1 through Sept. 30 award period. Winners were chosen in the Airman, noncommissioned officer, senior noncommissioned officer, company grade officer, first sergeant and civilian categories.

  • Aerial Port members compete in Port Dawg Challenge 2016

    Members of the 41st Aerial Port Squadron competed against one another in their annual Port Dawg Challenge during the October Unit Training Assembly here Oct. 15, 2016. This five-event challenge which showcased the knowledge, training and teamwork associated with working in the 41st APS, was

  • Flying medics come to Keesler

    The 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron unfurled its flag in a ceremony here today and officially became part of the Air Force Reserve’s 403rd Wing.Lt. Col. Brian A. May, 403rd Operations Group commander, presided over the ceremony that made the unit, which relocated here from Pope Field, N.C.,

  • 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron conducts first Keesler mission

    Imagine being strapped into the back of a C-130J Super Hercules on a litter, fighting to breathe while being whisked toward a hospital that can provide critical care. Not only are there pilots, navigators and loadmasters ensuring the aircraft makes it to the hospital safely, there are flight nurses

  • Hurricane Hunters fly data-gathering missions through Hurricane Matthew

    The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron has been conducting around-the-clock operations flying into Hurricane Matthew to collect critical weather data for the National Hurricane Center in Miami to improve the center’s computer models that forecast movement and intensity.   The

  • Care in the air: Aeromedical unit arrives at Keesler

    The 403rd Wing gains aeromedical evacuation squadron, which will become part of the wing during a ceremony Oct. 15, and the squadron is hiring.   The 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, relocating from Pope Field, N.C., will include 40 officers and 83 enlisted personnel.  Five of those positions

  • Kansas City Chiefs’ cheerleaders visit Keesler

    Gold and red pom poms shimmered in the Southern sun when National Football League cheerleaders from the Kansas City Chiefs visited Keesler Air Force Base today. Cheerleaders Katrina, Tara, Sarah and Claire (team policy dictates that they don’t share their last names) were here as part of an event

  • Long-time weather reconnaissance crewmembers retire

    A WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft landed on the Keesler Air Force Base runway and taxied to its parking spot in front of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron where a crowd watched the engines shut down and the propellers come to a slow halt.Lt. Col. Troy “Bear” Anderson and Lt. Col. Valerie

  • C-130J fleet upgrades engines

    Spinning propellers are what get the 403rd Wing’s fleet of 20 C-130J and WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft up into the sky to complete their missions. However, when those planes are back on the ground, there’s no reason for those props to continue turning. That’s why the 403rd Maintenance Squadron is