• Base reserves deployed spouse parking at Commissary

    Visitors to the Barksdale Commissary may have noticed some new, reserved parking spaces during their shopping trips over the past week.The 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron installed signs Oct. 31, reserving two parking spots for the spouses of local deployed servicemen and women.The idea for the reserved

  • Total Force team excels at inspection

    The 2nd and 307th Bomb Wings demonstrated excellence and the ability to carry out the mission during a Nuclear Operational Readiness Inspection Oct. 28- Nov. 5, announced Col. Bernard Dodson, Air Force Global Strike Command Deputy Inspector General, during the IG team's outbrief at Hoban Hall Nov.

  • Comm Squadron to improve speed, efficiency for Barksdale users

    Barksdale Airmen will soon see an improvement in their Non-classified Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) e-mail performance, thanks to the efforts of the 2nd Communications Squadron to move users to a new network server.Scheduled to begin Nov. 6, approximately 500 accounts per night will be migrated to

  • Veterans Day legacy to bring community together

    A Fall holiday, often celebrated with parades and barbecues, actually got its start almost 100 years ago.Veterans Day is a federal holiday celebrated Nov. 11, in which Americans honor those who have served in the military, both living and deceased.The Nov. 11 holiday is born from "Armistice Day,"

  • Air Force seeks retrainees to become paralegals

    A career field where Airmen can become experts on legal information and judicial processes is seeking retrainees. Paralegals do not practice law, but work alongside attorneys to draft wills, powers of attorney, perform notary services, process legal reviews and more."If Barksdale didn't have

  • Green Flag unit returns to operational status

    Based here as a tenant unit from Air Combat Command, the 548th Combat Training Squadron held a ceremony Oct 25 to commemorate the unit's change to operational status and transition to a facility formerly owned by the 47th Fighter Squadron.The ceremony was held at 5:48 p.m. and was centered on the

  • Snap, crackle, pop: the sounds of pain relief

    I followed the doctor down a sterile hallway, my eyes nervously scanning rooms full of medieval looking machines that made my own damaged back and nerves pulse with fear.In one room a patient hung upside down by his feet while in other rooms, people were hooked to wires and still others were bent