Keesler Is Back:

Nov. 21, 2005

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It must be true, because the base so recently ravaged by Hurricane Katrina just received the largest group of new students in the last two years, say base officials. The 314 recent graduates of basic training arrived at Keesler AFB, Miss., by a caravan of buses from Lackland AFB, Tex.

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