• STARBASE students become the teachers

    Through the sound of children’s chatter and laughter, a fifth-grade science lesson on Isaac Newton’s laws of motion is set to begin. But for this lesson, the students became the teachers sharing what they learned from STARBASE. STARBASE, a Department of Defense-wide youth program with an affiliate

  • Reinvigorating innovation: funding ideas into reality

    Base leadership gather around a table before an audience of onlookers, supporters and base personnel. Each Airman stands before the panel with sweaty palms, a knot in their throat and an innovative idea, all with hopes of receiving the jump start they will need to make their idea reality.

  • Living for the fallen: An Airman’s fight for her heritage

    She remembered her trip to Poland as haunting and depressing. This is the country her grandparents were in when they survived the Holocaust. Walking through parts of Auschwitz, she felt connected to them and she hurt for them. She thought to herself, “This can never happen again.”

  • B-52s roar during AFRICAN LION exercise

    B-52 Stratofortresses from the 2nd Bomb Wing, along with other U.S. and nine partner nations’ military forces, participated in the annual AFRICAN LION training exercise, April 17-27, 2018 in Morocco and Tunisia.

  • COMMENTARY: Mind and body

    “The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one,” said Deepak Chopra.

  • COMMENTARY: Feeling at home at my first base

    When I arrived at Barksdale in March 2017, I was thousands of miles away from my home and family. I’m familiar with the military lifestyle because my mother is an active duty Airman, but nothing could have prepared me for the depression and loneliness I often found myself feeling.