• Airfield management keeps flight line mission ready

    Senior Airman Kimberly Pearcy, 2nd Operations Support Squadron airfield management shift lead, documents a spall, or chipped area, on the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Feb. 1, 2018. Airmen perform multiple checks of the flight line each day to ensure the safety and functionality of

  • Defenders deliver hope for Andrew

    One evening, shortly after midnight, members of the 2nd Security Forces Squadron were performing routine checks at the munitions yard when a call came over the radio.A pregnant woman on the east side of base housing was severely bleeding.

  • Family Advocacy: Stopping the Violence

    2nd Medical Group Family Advocacy is sharing early warning signs that can help you detect, intervene and speak with a teen about dating violence before it gets out of hand.

  • Fire and Smoke: Natural Resources controlling the burn

    Fire destroys underbrush at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Jan. 31, 2018. If allowed to overgrow, underbrush can cause forest fires to spread and become harder to control. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Luke Hill)

  • Barksdale Tax Center now open

    The annual free tax center is now open at Barksdale and is available to all base residents including active duty, reservists and retirees.

  • Mission ready munitions

    Airman 1st Class Brandon Kiernan, 2nd Munitions Squadron conventional munitions crew member, sets up wood before a bomb build at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Jan. 30, 2017. When trailers are not available to build on, 2nd MUNS Airmen use wood, also referred to as dunnage, to build on instead.

  • Advanced notifications modify assignment management system

    A modification implemented Jan. 18, 2018, to the Assignment Management System will impact enlisted members E-8 and below and officer’s O-5 and below. The modification allows commanders and their delegates to receive early notifications of new assignments for their Airmen.

  • 2nd MDSS ensure Airmen are fit to fight

    Before a pilot enters the cock pit, before a maintainer turns a wrench and before Airmen load munitions on a plane, all Airmen must be medically capable of performing the job assigned to them.

  • Barksdale inducts newest honorary commanders

    The Honorary Commander program partners Barksdale unit commanders with local community leaders, to increase the public’s understanding of the base, its mission and its Airmen, while strengthening the relationship between Barksdale and the Shreveport and Bossier City communities.