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HEADLINE HERE.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Ryan LaFontaine
BILOXI, Miss. _ Keesler Air Force Base is attacking an old foe: drunken driving.
Security personnel recorded 104 on-base drunken-driving arrests in 2002. A year later, volunteers began offering free rides home from bars and casinos, cutting the number of arrests for driving under the influence to 60.
Airmen Against Drunk Driving will pick up active duty, reserve or retired personnel from any place within partying distance of the base.
AADD has 80 volunteers, who use their own vehicles to give rides and don't ask for gas money. The rides are anonymous, but Staff Sgt. Shironda Gilchrist, president, said the drivers are not chauffeurs.
"We are responsible for making sure they get home safely," Gilchrist said. "We don't take them barhopping, we just pick them up and take them home."
Volunteers picked up 648 partygoers in 2004, but the total number of DUI arrests rose to 84 _ a sign that the drunken-driving war is far from over.
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