• Climate change: eliminating sexual assault

    Barksdale's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office hosted Jeffrey Bucholtz, an activist, public speaker and co-director of We End Violence, to reinforce Team Barksdale's goal of eliminating sexual assault through the annual SAPR training seminar here, June 5-6.Bucholtz brought a message of

  • Public Health provides hot tips to beat the heat

    Summer has arrived and temperatures are expected to exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit.To maintain a healthy workforce and prevent heat-related illnesses, the 2nd Bomb Wing Public Health Flight and Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight provide helpful information to beat the heat at Barksdale and continue

  • New director takes CDC reins

    Tameko Thomas, known to many as Ms. T., is dedicated to the education and development of military children and to providing their families with a much-needed support system, something she's been doing for more than 17 years.As the new director of Barksdale's Child Development Center, she'll get the

  • Barksdale unit wins DOD-level award, tops 1,640 agencies

    When striving for excellence is the expectation for all Airmen, standing out in the Air Force is quite an accomplishment. One Barksdale squadron has found a way to make this happen in resounding fashion.The 2nd Force Support Squadron was chosen above more than 1,640 Department Of Defense agencies to

  • 2014 Consumer Confidence Water Quality Report for Barksdale AFB

    Barksdale AFB purchases water from the Shreveport Water System.  Shreveport gets their water from the Cross Lake Watershed (area which is drained by streams flowing to the lake) which consists of about 260 square miles of land, of which roughly two-thirds is located in Caddo Parish and one-third is

  • Memorial Day 2015: Remembering our heritage

    Strikers,Memorial Day weekend is so much more than a signal of summer's approach--It focuses the Nation on the heroes who died while serving in this great country's armed forces.  The first official Memorial Day observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868 to honor and decorate