Barksdale Air Force Base News

John Thomisee Jr. and his family have lived in a home on Caplis-Sligo Road in south Bossier Parish for 10 years without any flood problems.

Louisiana military bases were under tight watch Thursday after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The cultures and religion of the Middle East, where the nation now is engaged militarily and has much of its energy and diplomatic policy focused, will be the subject of a special seminar at Barksdale Air Force Base today.

Louisiana Congressman Dr. John Fleming has publicly lauded efforts by personnel at Barksdale Air Force Base to help fight floods threatening parts of Bossier Parish since record rains deluged the area.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE BOSTICK, Afghanistan. - Being the only Joint Expeditionary Tasked Airman assigned to an Army Combat Outpost on the outskirts of Afghanistan-Pakistan border can be a little intimidating and scary.

Mission: "Develop and provide combat-ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations ... safe, secure, credible ... to support the president of the United States and combatant commanders." Vision: "American Airmen with special trust and responsibility for the most powerful weapons in our nation's arsenal ... an elite, highly ...

Barksdale Air Force Base airmen, at the request of state and local officials, have been working nonstop since early Saturday morning to reinforce a levee containing Red Chute Bayou in northern Bossier Parish.

The commander of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., has been relieved of duty.

Power has been confirmed off at, among other areas in Bossier City, along Barksdale Boulevard south past Barksdale Air Force Base and at the Louisiana Boardwalk.

Bossier City's proposed 2010 budget, which currently would see 117 of the city's 897 employees cut, has been made public.

The historic West Gate of Barksdale Air Force Base soon will be no more. According to a release posted on the facility's Web site, the structure that was in place even before the base opened in February 1933 will come down over the next week, a victim of progress.

Flyboys from World War II, now grizzled grandfathers, got a tour of Barksdale Air Force Base on Friday, but it was far from a march through nostalgia alley.

Broadmoor Garage and Builders Supply Company Inc., both in Shreveport, won Torch Awards from the Better Business Bureau.

By John Andrew Prime * jprime@gannett.com * October 22, 2009 A U.S. bomb group of World War II, born at Barksdale Field in the dark days of the start of the war and part of one of aerial combat's riskiest long-range raids, will have its annual reunion at the base this week.

The fired commander of 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is weighing whether to retire or accept a position at Air Force Space Command headquarters.

Shreveport and Bossier City have been designated as among more than 40 locations across the nation as planning model Veterans Day activities, the Department of Veterans Affairs says.

Gov. Bobby Jindal, state military leaders and elected representatives broke ground Tuesday for first phase of construction of an Army regional training center that, upon completion in 2016, could bring close to $100 million in construction to the Webster Parish site.

As part of a three-year officer exchange program, a French pilot recently joined the Flying Tiger family.

The Air Force abruptly fired the commander of the 11th Wing at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., after losing confidence in his ability to lead, according to a service news release.

Landing a steady job amid a moribund economy can challenge the best of us. Factor in a disability, and the task might seem insurmountable.