Barksdale Air Force Base

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta plans to visit Barksdale Air Force Base Friday.

A proposal today from the White House is not setting well with Fourth District Louisiana Congressman John Fleming.

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...

  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...

With the Air Show going on at Barksdale Air Force Base this weekend, there will also be some traffic rerouting. When the gates to Barksdale open at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, traffic entering the base will run its normal route. But when the air show ends each day, all four lanes of traffic at the Shreveport Gate -- also known as the West Gate -- on Barksdale Boulevard will be designated for outbo