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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 .
The 1944 Keesler Field Fliers football team, also called the "Commandos", represented the United States Army Air Forces's Keesler Field during the 1944 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Berl Huffman , the Fliers compiled a record of 8–1–2.
The 1943 Keesler Field Commandos football team represented the United States Army Air Forces's Keesler Field during the 1943 college football season. Led by head coach Berl Huffman, the Fliers compiled a record of 3–1. [1] In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Keesler Field ranked 61st among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of ...
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The 1945 Keesler Field Fliers football team represented the United States Army Air Forces's Keesler Field during the 1945 college football season. Led by head coach James Coffis, the Fliers compiled a 3–6–1 record. The Keesler Field Fliers were ranked 49th among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings. [1]
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.
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 ...
Kelly Field, with Brooks as a subpost, took care of advanced flying training. In July 1939 the full course of flying instruction was shortened in length from a year to nine months—three for each phase. The number of primary contract schools expanded to 41 by the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and to 60 at various times in 1943. [1]