Military

Purchase agreement would lead to 4,900 additional acres for the military base near Leesville, the State of Louisiana announced a successful effort by the U.S. Army to secure a purchase agreement on additional land for Fort Polk and the installation's Joint Readiness Training Center...

Graduation day is right around the corner for a special group of young people.

A Barksdale-based A-10 squadron is preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. So, for the next few days, you may see an increase in A-10 activity around the base.

An open invitation is being extended to all World War II veterans and their families to have lunch at Barksdale Air Force Base next month.

A Barksdale Air Force Base Airman has reportedly been killed in Afghanistan. KSLA-TV reports that 23-year-old Bryan Bell died yesterday, after he was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device. Bell was a member of an elite "Explosive Ordinance Division" -- or Bomb Squad -- based at Barksdale...

A big homecoming today for Caddo Sheriff's Corporal Levi Brown...he returned to work this morning as a deputy after serving eight years in the U.S. Army. Brown had only been a sheriff's deputy for a couple of years when he was called to serve in the Iraq War in January 2003 ...

  Barksdale AFB is hosting a luncheon for World War II veterans, our nation’s greatest generation. It will be at Hoban Hall on Friday 24 February at 11 am with much military pageantry including WW II veterans led by a bagpiper thru the Cordon of Swords...

A great Christmas gift for several Barksdale Airmen.

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution (More info) 1941 – In an early-morning sneak attack, Japanese warplanes bomb the US naval base at Oahu Island’s Pearl Harbor, causing the United States to enter World War II (More info)

Patriotic music and a keynote address from Louisiana's most highly decorated living Vietnam veteran will be among the highlights of today's big Veterans Day observance on the Clyde Fant Parkway.