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  • Financial counselors assist Airmen with mission readiness

    Airmen train year-round to ensure they have the technical, physical, and mental skills to ensure they are combat ready. Being mission ready though deals with more than just the capacity to do one’s job; an Airman’s finances can have a huge impact on their ability to serve.

  • Trash to Treasure: Reserve Citizen Airmen, rescue dog bring joy to community

    Maj. C.W. Lemoine, the 403rd Wing's new Inspector General of Complaints, and his rescue husky Luna have been spreading cheer to their community this holiday season. When the major isn’t investigating and resolving complaints for wing Airmen, he volunteers 40 to 50 hours a month, with his therapy

  • Trash to Treasure: Reserve Citizen Airmen, rescue dog bring joy to community

    Maj. C.W. Lemoine, the 403rd Wing's new Inspector General of Complaints, and his rescue husky Luna have been spreading cheer to their community this holiday season. When the major isn’t investigating and resolving complaints for wing Airmen, he volunteers 40 to 50 hours a month, with his therapy

  • Reserve tactical airlift unit uses upgraded night-vision devices

    Imagine a nearly pitch black space. The hand you can only faintly see in front of you rises to flip a battery pack towards your forehead and a faint hum of power buzzes incessantly like a mosquito in the summertime.White light emits from two electronically connected monocular devices.You thumb and

  • No off season: Hurricane Hunters fly winter storms too

    The United States Air Force Reserve 403rd Wing’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, more affectionately known as the Hurricane Hunters, is most well-known for doing the unfathomable—flying at 10,000 feet, sometimes less, through major tropical systems, storms and hurricanes to collect useful

  • Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters close out 2018 hurricane season

    The 2018 hurricane season ended Nov. 30, and was an active one for the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, who flew more than 655 hours and 83 missions into 12 named storms over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, assigned to the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 403rd

  • Reserve maintainer perseveres with music, art career

    From a church pulpit to a stage bar, this former preacher walks into the spotlight. As his fingers dance on the guitar strings, his voice sings tales of pain, perseverance and his journey to exuberance. As if in a trance, the audience hangs on to this every word, and in those moments, this native

  • 2nd AF leaders immersed in AF Reserve wing

    Standing in front of a two-star general and explaining what your unit does and why could make anyone’s stomach twist. But members of the 403rd Wing not only did it without breaking a sweat, they did it with energy and passion.

  • Biloxi High JROTC students fly with Hurricane Hunters

    Members of the Biloxi High School JROTC team look out the window of a WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft. They won the Mississippi All Services JRTOC Drill Competition Nov. 18 at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. and were rewarded by having a chance to fly with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron