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  • Key Field 2015 annual training sharpens skills and builds camaraderie

    Key Field service members convened at the Gulfport-based training center July 11 - 25 for Annual Training to better prepare for rapid global mobility and agile combat support.Annual training prepares service members in the case that they are called on for deployments and to fulfill other mission

  • Key Field Airmen Recognized by Coast Guard

    Forty Airmen with the 186th Civil Engineer Squadron received the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation here for their participation in a deployment for training at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater in Clearwater, Florida from May 17 to June 30, 2014.   Why would the Coast Guard be awarding

  • Key Field supports local, national interests

    The unique missions of the Mississippi Air National Guard provide Key Field's 1,200+ personnel an opportunity to assist local communities in need and support our nation's homeland defense efforts both locally and abroad.Ever since our nation came into existence, Citizen Soldiers and Airmen have been

  • Key Field celebrates holidays with Family Day

    Mississippi Air National Guard service members and their families enjoyed spending time together and participating in various activities during the Key Field Air National Guard Base's family day celebration December 6.Several hundred people gathered in the base maintenance hangar where they

  • Barrier-breaking Miss. National Guard officer dies at 58

    The first female general officer in the history of the Mississippi National Guard died Thursday after an extended illness.Maj. Gen. Catherine S. Lutz passed away at home in Flora after battling the disease for more than a year, said Mississippi National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. (Retired) Timothy J.

  • Nabors takes command of the 186th ARW

    The first thing Col. Mike Nabors did when he took over command of the 186th Air Refueling Wing at Key Field was walk over to a large window in his office and gaze out over the tarmac where several KC-135 tankers sat silently awaiting their next mission.Nabors, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force

  • 186 ARW commander retires on top

    Colonel Franklin Chalk, wing commander, 186th Air Refueling Wing, retired from the Mississippi Air National Guard with family, fellow guard members, dignitaries and friends watching as he folded his wings for the final time at Key Field Air National Guard Base November 22, 2013.During his 35 year

  • 186 ARW Airmen recognized by Air Force Association

    The Meridian Chapter of the Air Force Association honored three members of the 186th Air Refueling Wing for earning Airman of the Year at its annual meeting May 31, 2013.The three honorees were nominated by their unit based on his or her exceptional performance in the following areas: leadership and

  • Tankers return to refueling roots

    The KC-135 Stratotankers return to the 186th Air Refueling Wing commences June 10, 2013 with one aircraft arriving at Key Field where in-flight refueling was born."There is a real buzz on the base right now and that will spill over into the general public once they start seeing the tankers