• Quality Assurance checking it out

    Maintaining "Excellence in all we do" is every Airmen's job, though for the Airmen of the 2nd Maintenance Group Quality Assurance office, it's also their mission.Quality Assurance Airmen are maintenance experts who work to identify trends, provide support and advice, and handle difficult or unique

  • Gambling on Safety, a Losing Proposition

     Roulette is a game of chance, but crossing the street at a designated crosswalk is a matter of safety and should not be left to a spin of the wheel. In fact, using a crosswalk squarely puts the odds in favor of the motor vehicle.  While pedestrians certainly have the ultimate responsibility to

  • Summer fun at the youth center

    The Barksdale Youth Center annual summer camp kicked off with a luau as children visited "Barksdale Island" May 25.The luau is one of many activities offered to the children attending the camp, which includes different educational activities such as science projects, arts and crafts, field trips,

  • Barksdale assists with Humanitarian Transport

    Airmen from Barksdale Air Force Base, La. participated in a massive humanitarian relief effort to Haiti, May 11. The Airmen, from the 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, loaded more than 100,000 pounds of food onto a C-17 Globemaster as part of Operation Ukraine.Haiti is still in desperate need of

  • Team Barksdale firefighter recognized

    A member of Team Barksdale proved to be "best of the best" following his selection recently from a pool of thousands of competitors as the top civilian firefighter in the Air Force.Jessie Fletcher, 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron, was named the 2011 Air Force Civilian Firefighter of the Year. "It was a

  • Barksdale children take a bite out of reading

    The Barksdale Library will kick off its annual Summer Reading Program June 5 at the Youth Center.The program, which runs until July 24, is designed to prevent summer learning loss by keeping children reading while they are away from school. Research shows long summer vacations break the rhythm of

  • Fitness is more than physical

    During a recent NCO all-call, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, spoke about an innovative approach to health and fitness called Comprehensive Airmen Fitness, or CAF.Take the many domains of the B-52H Stratofortress as an