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Keesler Air Force Base (IATA: BIX, ICAO: KBIX, FAA LID: BIX) is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city along the Gulf Coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. The base is named in honor of aviator 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler Jr. , a Mississippi native killed in France during the First World War .
An officers' club, known within the military as an O club, is an establishment similar to a gentlemen's club for commissioned officers of the armed forces. Few officers' clubs have survived the end of the Cold War .
Lackland AFB: Wolfpack: Basic Military Training 332d Training Squadron: Lackland AFB: Mad Dogs: English language training 333d Training Squadron: Keesler AFB: Technical Training 334th Training Squadron: Keesler AFB: Gators: Airfield Operations / Command and Control Technical Training 335th Training Squadron: Keesler AFB: Bulls: Technical ...
On July 1, 1961, the 577th Strategic Missile Squadron was activated at Altus Air Force Base and established twelve missile silo sites in a 40-mile radius around Altus, each with one Atlas-F nuclear missile. Of the twelve sites, all but one were located in Oklahoma.
29 August 2005 tested the resolve of the 81st Training Wing in as drastic a manner as imaginable. When Hurricane Katrina barrelled into the gulf coast as a category 4 storm, the eye was only approximately 30 miles off a head-on hit with Keesler Air Force Base. Because of the hurricane, all students and non-essential personnel of the 81st were ...
The 403rd Wing is a unit of the United States Air Force assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command.It is located at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi and employs a military manning authorization of more than 1,400 reservists, including some 250 full-time air reserve technicians.
C-17 Globemaster III – Altus AFB, Oklahoma; C-21 Learjet – Keesler AFB, Mississippi; C-130 Hercules – Little Rock AFB, Arkansas; KC-135 Stratotanker – Altus AFB, Oklahoma; KC-46 Pegasus – Altus AFB, Oklahoma; MC-130 Commando II and HC-130 Combat King II – Kirtland AFB, New Mexico; UH-1N Twin Huey – Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Operational crews train twice monthly at Keesler AFB and fly weather recon missions when available. [23] 53rd WRS pilots and loadmasters go through their initial C-130J training at the 314th Airlift Wing's tactical airlift training center at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.