Barksdale Air Force Base News

Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler remembers exactly what he was doing the day in August 2007 when he got a call about a monumental misdelivery.Dressed in his most tuxedo-like uniform and giving a speech to senior sergeants in an Air Force hangar on Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, the then-colonel left his audience in an instant.

Two years ago the Urban land Institute was invited to Shreveport/Bossier City to hold an advisory panel to make recommendations on the direction and development of the region.

A maintenance team from the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., works on an ICBM.

A military construction and veterans affairs bill the U.S. Senate approved this week includes $12.8 million for a new ramp at Barksdale Air Force Base.

BOSSIER CITY, LA A Barksdale Air Force Base commander was recognized Tuesday afternoon for his help during the recent storms that hit Bossier City a couple of weeks ago.

Bossier City Mayor Lorenz 'Lo' Walker spoke briefly Tuesday at a luncheon hosted by the North Shreveport Business Association.

Just hours before a U.S. Army psychiatrist with Middle Eastern roots was accused last week of shooting and killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, including a dozen soldiers, an expert at Barksdale Air Force Base offered insights into the psychology, religion and culture of that important part of world to peers in the local law enforcement and first ...

Lighting a candle in memory of one of the 13 people killed last week in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, held a special meaning for Calvary Baptist Academy junior Mark Blume.

Reaction locally is one of shock and sadness after word of 12-people killed and 31-wounded in Fort Hood, Texas.

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.