Military

Air Force Global Strike Command’s second annual Global Strike Challenge missile, bomb and security forces competition will culminate with  the score posting finale here, Nov. 8-9. Team and individual awards will be presented to those teams with the highest performance scores among Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer, UH-1N Huey and security forces units.

More than 480 airmen from Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, and the Air Force Reserve component are gathered in northwest Louisiana this week.

Veteran's Day is almost a week away...and there are lots of commemorations going on that day. One of those is being held at LSU Shreveport -- the second annual Veteran's Day program at the flag pole in the center of campus. The program features retired Air Force Lt...

The policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which has been in place since the Clinton administration, became a thing of the past at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday when the United States became one of more than 40 countries worldwide allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces. “They will no longer have to lie in order to help protect us,” said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Ca

“G.I. Jobs,” the premier magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has awarded LSU Shreveport the designation of Military Friendly School. The 2012 Military Friendly Schools honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students...

Ten years later, I think everyone still remembers where they were on September 11th, 2001, like it was yesterday. I know I do. I was working not far from our radio stations then -- at a place called National Mail-It, which was located on Financial Plaza...

Rusheon Middle School in Bossier City held a 9/11 memorial service this morning to remember those who lost their lives 10 years ago. The ceremony was hosted by school principal Harriet Johnson and was attended by law enforcement officers from the Bossier Sheriff’s Department, Bossier City Police Department and Louisiana State Police, along with firefighters from the Bossier City Fire Department an

LSU Shreveport Associate Professor Gary Joiner has been named the chairman of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Task Force by Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne. Joiner was also named to the Louisiana Bicentennial Commission by Gov. Bobby Jindal. As chairman of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Task Force, Joiner is responsible for developing programs commemorating Louisiana’s role in the Civil War...

Authorities will be closing several streets tomorrow in Shreveport’s Highland neighborhood tomorrow morning as they work to help honor the memory of Chief Petty Officer Robert James Reeves.

A local Army veteran gets a little help this weekend. 90-year-old Frank Vaccaro fought in, and nearly died at, the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. And tomorrow, he'll have his house painted by volunteers from the Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana...