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Air Force base runway project claims a life

Associated Press — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:41:20 +0000

COLUMBUS — A contract worker involved in an accident at Columbus Air Force Base has died from his injuries. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant says 24-year-old James Meyers of Columbus was working on a runway project on the base when he was injured. Merchant says it appears Meyers died from blunt force trauma. Merchant says [...]

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Shipbuilder to hold ceremony for Coast Guard cutter

Associated Press — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:20:06 +0000

PASCAGOULA — Ingalls Shipbuilding will hold a keel authentication Friday in Pascagoula for its fifth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter James (WMSL 754). Ingalls President Irwin F. Edenzon and David Blackburn, director of the USCG Project Resident Office Gulf Coast, are scheduled to speak at the 10 a.m. event at the shipyard. The security [...]

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National guard tankers returning to Key Field

Associated Press — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:16:53 +0000

MERIDIAN — The Air National Guard at Key Field is receiving two KC-135 tankers in July. The arrival of the tankers means the Guard unit is going back to an air refueling mission. The KC-135′s left Key Field in March of 2011. The base received C-27 planes as it changed to an airlift mission. Col. [...]

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State sends drone site proposal to FAA

Associated Press — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:27:31 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi is bidding for one of six sites nationwide to test unmanned aerial vehicles. A Mississippi Development Authority spokeswoman says the state submitted its proposal to the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. State officials say the FAA should choose Mississippi because it has three manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as a [...]

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Gerard hands Eurocopter keys to Spears

Associated Press — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:53:06 +0000

COLUMBUS — Mike Spears, who has worked more than 25 years at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Troy, Ala., has been named head of American Eurocopter’s Lakota helicopter production facility in Lowndes County. Spears succeeds Fred Gerard, who has served as senior director of the Lakota production and retrofit unit since the program’s 2006 inception. Gerard [...]

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Shipbuilder wins contract to build sixth Coast Guard cutter

MBJ Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:35:33 +0000

PASCAGOULA — The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a $487-million, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division to build the sixth national security cutter, Munro (WMSL 755). “Our Coast Guard customer continues to be extremely pleased with the performance of the NSC, and this contract proves that,” said Jim French, Ingalls’ NSC program [...]

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Defense honors sheriff’s office, automaker, pawn shop

MBJ Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:53:47 +0000

AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense operational committee, has selected three Mississippi employers as semifinalists for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The Freedom Award is the DoD’s highest honor for employers that provide extraordinary support to their Guard and Reserve employees. This [...]

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Company making bug-repellent uniforms for Army

Associated Press — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:40:58 +0000

GOLDEN — A Mississippi company has a contract to make up to $55.3 million worth of bug-repellent uniform coats for the Army. The Pentagon said in a news release Golden Manufacturing Co. Inc. of Golden, will be making the combat uniform coats from fabric treated with the insecticide Permethrin (pur-METH-rihn). The work is to be [...]

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Air force base to feel impact of deep budget cut

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:50:58 +0000

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The commander at Keesler Air Force Base says the base will ground planes and reduce training to deal with a 20 percent reduction in its budget. That’s the effects of the federal spending reductions, known as sequestration. The Sun Herald reports Gen. Brad Spacy, commander of the 81st Training Wing, told [...]

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Naval air base becomes one of first to be named StormReady

MBJ Staff — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:21:01 +0000

MERIDIAN — The Naval Air Station in Meridian is the fourth government or military site to earn the National Weather Service’s StormReady designation in Mississippi, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Mississippi has 26 counties, 15 communities, four state universities and four government/military sites designated as StormReady in Mississippi. StormReady is a nationwide program [...]

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