• Stratotanker, bomber train in teamwork

    A KC-135 Stratotanker arrived from the 336th Air Refueling Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., Feb. 8 to train with Barksdale's B-52 squadrons. The KC-135 Stratotanker has the capability to provide midflight refueling, transport personnel during evacuations, and carrying pallets of cargo.

  • Barksdale gone fishing: Airmen participate in 2009 ESPN Bassmaster Classic

    The 2009 ESPN Bassmaster Classic allowed several Barksdale Airmen to reel-in a piece of the action Feb. 20 - 22. Several bass enthusiasts and the Barksdale Hawgherders bass club participated in the classic, which brought 137,700 people to the Shreveport area for what is referred to as the Super Bowl

  • For the Love of country

    In the early 1950s, at the age of 17, a young African-American male decided to join the United States Air Force. John Love, a Columbia, S.C., native, was use to racism growing up in the South, but nothing could prepare him for what he was about to experience. His first day at Lackland Air Force

  • HAP House provides hope

    The Handicap are Producers House, more commonly known as HAP House, is a non-profit organization on Barksdale that provides mentally and physically disabled adults the opportunity to work and earn a paycheck. Barksdale is the only military installation that allows a program like this to operate on

  • CDC children take to the sky

    The children at Barksdale's Child Development Center became 'pilots' Jan. 20 after helping construct a 9-foot cardboard model of a B-52 Stratofortress. The idea for the project was sparked in the classroom for two-year-old children when toddler Tyler Chamberlain, father is a B-52 pilot, chattered

  • 2d Bomb Wing conducts Global Power mission

    Last week Airmen from the 2d Operations Groups flew two B-52 Stratofortress bombers beginning a vital Global Power training mission. The Airmen flew nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East region en route to a base in the Indian Ocean. From there they will

  • So help me God: Barksdale gets calling for prayer breakfast

    More than 300 members of the Barksdale community came together to recognize the National Prayer Breakfast Jan. 4 at the Stripes Enlisted Lounge. The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event held on the first Thursday of February in Washington, D.C. Frank Carlson, a former U.S. Senator, hotel

  • Wing and a prayer

    In a long overdue award ceremony Feb. 2 an American hero was presented the Army's Distinguished Service Cross for leading a formation of B-24s on an extremely dangerous mission during World War II. Then-Capt. Walter T. Holmes, operations officer for the 68th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment

  • The French connection: France's general visits Barksdale

    French Lt. Gen. Gilles Desclaux, France's commander in chief of air defense and air operations, visited Barksdale January 25 to 28 on behalf of the 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder, to discuss ongoing operations and to fly in a B-52. "France as a country is considering participating

  • ACC commander visits Barksdale

    Gen. John D. W. Corley, Air Combat Command commander, paid a visit to Barksdale Air Force Base Jan. 26 and 27. Senior leadership from Barksdale's 8th Air Force, 2d Bomb Wing and 917th Wing greeted their commanding officer before he set out to tour the base and meet with Airmen. Gen. Corley's