• Free dental assistant training program offered

    The 2d Dental Squadron is accepting applications for the Red Cross Dental Assistant Program. Family members of active-duty and retired military members may apply. Applications are available at the Barksdale Dental Clinic and will be accepted until March 5. Applicants must be at least 18 years of

  • ALS sees new curriculum

    Barksdale's most recent Airman Leadership School graduates were among the first to witness the schools' most current curriculum. ALS institutions Air Force-wide are required to have a "historic, total rewrite" of the training system in place and ready for instruction as of Jan. 1, said Senior Master

  • Commissary continues construction, update of facilities

    Even though the new, state-of-the-art commissary has been open for business since September 2007, the facility is still undergoing construction. "Our produce department has really been challenged since our grand opening in September," said Mr. Robert Buras, commissary store director. "The distance

  • 48 years old...and perfect

    A pair of Barksdale maintainers earned a rare honor on Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Benjamin Norton and Airman 1st Class Jason Edwards, dedicated crew chief and assistant crew chief respectively, of B-52 tail # 60-0021, signed off on a "black letter initial" jet. "Sergeant Norton placed his initial over the

  • ACC announces 2007 Media Contest winners

    Air Combat Command announced on Thursday the winners of the 2007 ACC Public Affairs Achievement Awards and Media Contest. Following the merger of multimedia communication and public affairs career fields in 2007, this year's awards program included the full communications capability of public

  • Coast Guard and Air Force team together to transport vitamins

    A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules landed here Thursday evening with a generator and 1,053,800 vitamins for local schools and an orphanage, donated by Vitamins for the World and Extreme Response International. Bob Eredics, director of Vitamins for the World, based in Bradenton, Fla., was part of an

  • Airman's attic reopens

    Barksdale's Airman's Attic and Loan Locker have reopened from 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the former Franks Sub Shop located next to the Stripes Lounge here. Both services were closed in November 2007 after being run by the Airman and Family Readiness Center for seven years. "The Airman and

  • Virtual assistant class offered to spouses on base

    Military spouses face unique career challenges resulting from a lifestyle that often involves frequent relocations--sometimes to remote, isolated posts, high-cost areas, and areas where the prospects for employment are less than ideal. These moves, necessary though they may be, not only impact