FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi ~ 07 February 2017

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi

Keesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city 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. The base is home of Headquarters, Second Air Force (2 AF) and the 81st Training Wing (81 TW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC).

The Second Air Force mission is to provide the best-trainined, combat-ready forces. To carry out this mission, Second Air Force manages all operational aspects of nearly 2,700 active training courses taught to approximately 150,000 students annually in technical training, basic military training, medical and distance learning courses. Training operations across Second Air Force range from intelligence to computer operations to space and missile operations and maintenance.

Keesler AFB is also the home of the 85th Engineering Installation Squadron (EIS), of the 688th Cyberspace Wing (CW), which is the Air Force's only active duty EIS. The almost 200 AFSPC Airmen and Civilians of the 85th EIS can design, engineer, and install the full range of C&I equipment and components typically found at a fixed site and other specialty systems unique to expeditionary forces.

They are also the only organization in the DoD to provide specialized engineering services such as electromagnetic hazard and interference investigations and High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) protection. During contingencies, the 85th EIS can deliver their unique skills to the warfighter within 72 hours.

The 403rd Wing is the largest flying organization at Keesler, and the only Air Force Reserve Command wing in Mississippi. With a military manning authorization of more than 1,400 reservists, including 250 full-time air reserve technicians, the wing performs dual missions: tactical airlift support during peace- and war-time contingencies, and aerial weather reconnaissance supporting the Department of Commerce.

Learn More About Keesler Air Force Base HERE!!

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Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Ms Penny!!

[radu]

Can’t blame ya a bit!
If a ladder is required for something here, Hubby gets drafted. :-)

[radu]

Careful on those slick roads!
Hope you don’t have much homework tonight.

[MrEdd]

Spent the January ‘85 through January ‘86 there.

[radu]

Nice to meet Ms Penny at last! Pretty girl. BIG girl!

[luvie]

Yep, here too! I don’t need the “thrill of it all”! LOL!

[radu]

Sounds like that’s a thrill we can both do without. LOL

[luvie]

We’re the smart ones! ;)

[radu]

No argument here! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I’m home safely. Stopped at WalMart to get an ice cream cake for my Mom’s birthday Friday...92 years old. I know it is something she will enjoy. Between leaving the 4th floor and arriving at the outside doors the fog settled in again. Finally lifted about half way home.

I opted out of bringing anything home tonight. I have a stack already here that I will try to finish and take back. It’s old stuff that needs labeling and alphabetizing and then packed in a box. It will be a good accomplishment if I finish it. LOL!

[luvie]

I’m just glad that chore is done. Every time I clean in there, I have to wonder where all that STUFF came from! LOL!

And yet, I can’t get rid of it either. Some things are probably worth a lot. Coca Cola collection. I love Coke stuff! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, MrEdd...we thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sounds like Penny had a wonderful time at the Super Bowl party.

And she had her own attentive audience. How do you beat that?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sounds like a lot of folks that forgot how to drive in snow. So sorry that there was fatality.

Hopefully you are not having to fight the freeze/thaw cycles.

[radu]

Glad you got home safe and sound. Can’t be fun driving on that stuff.

MMMMMM! Ice cream cake! I’m on the way! LOL!
Wow! 92. It’s an accomplishment to make it that long. It’s just sad her mind is in a place she can’t enjoy it.

Good for you not taking homework with you tonight. Sounds like you have enough to occupy your free time as it is without the stress of HAVING to get it all done tonight. :-)

[radu]

Yeah, that’s the kind of chore one doesn’t look forward to doing.It’s done now, though, and you don’t have to worry about it for a while.

Some of the Coke items are worth a bundle. All depends on what you’ve collected over the years.

[Kathy in Alaska]

The cake is Caramel Turtle. They have Cookies and Cream and Banana Split. All are excellent! The first time I thaw it enough to cut it, I cut up the whole cake. Then it goes back in the freezer and is easy for me to pull out one section at a time. She can then thaw her piece or work on it mostly frozen. Works quite well.

[luvie]

Now? :)

[luvie]

Now? :)

[luvie]

Now? :)