• Taking out the Trash: Spring Cleaning at Barksdale

    It’s springtime at Barksdale and with the new season comes fresh changes, such as warmer weather, rainfall, and flourishing flora and fauna canvasing the base with color, renewing its beauty. For some, part of the renewal process involves spring cleaning.

  • Give Parents a Break

    The Barksdale Air Force Base Child Development Center and youth programs offer military parents the opportunity to have some time to themselves every month in honor of the Give Parents a Break program.

  • B-52s join coalition forces

    Hundreds of aircrew, maintainers and support personnel deployed with several B-52 Stratofortresses from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, April 9, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. These B-52s will replace the B-1B Lancers currently stationed in Qatar as part

  • New and improved: Exchange hosts grand reopening

    Community and Exchange leadership honor retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. James Jones at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., March 31, 2016. Jones is a Vietnam War veteran and Shreveport resident who won a grand prize in Military Star’s Your Holiday Bill Is On Us sweepstakes. Jones had his account

  • Iron Airmen: Fitness from the front

    From four-star generals to commanders and chiefs, it’s commonplace to find all levels of leadership at the SrA Bryan Bell Fitness Center early in the mornings.

  • 2016 Defenders of Liberty Mud Run

    Senior Airman Kimberly Brister, 2nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron flight medicine technician, climbs out of a mud pit after crawling under a cargo net during the 2016 Defenders of Liberty Mud run at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., April 2. Mud run participants ran a 4-mile course through hilly terrain,