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	Barksdale Air Force Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barksdale is the home of the U.S. Air Force's 2d Bomb Wing, headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, and the Air Force Reserve Command's 917th Wing.
		Barksdale Field was renamed Barksdale Air Force Base January 13, 1948.
		Barksdale was the first location to which President George W. Bush was flown after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barksdale_Air_Force_Base (305 words)

	Air Force One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States (it is a common misconception that "Air Force One" refers to a single airplane).
		Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the presidency and its power; after the White House, it is probably the most recognized Presidential institution.
		Air Force One at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on June 16, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Force_One (4069 words)

	Eighth Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eighth Air Force is a numbered air force (NAF) of the major command (MAJCOM) of Air Combat Command of the United States Air Force and it is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
		The Eighth Air Force was under the command of Lt.
		Eighth Air Force served Strategic Air Command (SAC) after the war, both in the United States and overseas until SAC was deactivated, then served Air Combat Command since June 1, 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eighth_Air_Force (308 words)

	Barksdale Air Force Base, La (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Barksdale is home to the 2d Bomb Wing, 2d Operations Group, 2d Maintenance Group, 2d Mission Support Group, the 2d Medical Group, Eighth Air Force Museum (which maintains the historical aircraft and artifacts that grace the base) and the Air Force Reserve’s 917th Wing.
		Barksdale’s last KC-135 was placed in the Eighth Air Force Museum after its final flight in March, and the last KC-10 departed in October.
		The B-52s from Barksdale that were deployed to Spain dropped 10 percent of all U.S. Air Force bombs during the Persian Gulf War.
	www.barksdale.af.mil /2bw/barkinfo/barkhist.shtml (2345 words)

	Barksdale AFB - United States Nuclear Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Barksdale Air Force Base is headquarters for the 2d Bomb Wing, Eighth Air Force and 917th Wing.
		Barksdale AFB is located in Bossier Parish, in the northwest corner of Louisiana just 18 miles East of the Texas border and 70 miles South of Arkansas.
		Barksdale AFB is noteworthy in aviation history for its pioneering efforts in all forms of military transport and flight.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/barksdale.htm (746 words)

	Barksdale Air Force Base - SAC - 2nd Bomb Wing - B-47, B-52Wing
		Barksdale AFB is located in the NW corner of Louisiana just 18 miles East of the Texas border and 70 miles South of Arkansas.
		Barksdale Field was named Barksdale Air Force Base in 1948.
		During 1949, Barksdale was the home of the first Air Force all-jet strategic reconnaissance/bomber aircraft, the North American RB-45 "Tornado" and home to the 2nd Air Force headquarters, bringing Barksdale into the Strategic Air Command.
	www.strategic-air-command.com /bases/Barksdale_AFB.htm (345 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Officials say Barksdale is safe for this next round of closures but long-term the concern of it closing is getting louder in Bossier.
		Murray Viser with Barksdale Forward said, "the best guess is that Barksdale is going to be okay of course with BRAC and particuarly this round there`s no telling what`s going to happen.
		Base officials declined an on camera interview but told Newschannel Six they expect to see the B-52 and Barksdale continue as it has for the past forty years and they have support.
	www.newschannel6.tv /news?mode=shownews&id=5875 (403 words)

	USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: CLINTON REMARKS ON KOSOVO AT BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE
		Speaking April 12 to Air Force personnel, their dependents and civilian employees at Barksdale Air Force, home base for B-52 bombers flying missions in the Kosovo campaign, Clinton said Milosevic can end the NATO air strikes by agreeing to NATO demands.
		It was from this base during the very large coalition effort in the Gulf War that crews launched the longest strike mission in the history of aerial combat, 35 nonstop hours in the air, when B-52s left Barksdale to strike at Saddam Hussein's war machine and returned safely here.
		The forces are working to save innocent lives, to protect the peace and freedom and stability of Europe, to stand against the notion that it's okay to uproot, destroy and murder people because of their race, ethnic background or religion.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF990412/epf109.htm (2288 words)

	Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum - Savannah, GA
		With headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA, the 8th Air Force is one of three active-duty numbered air forces in Air Combat Command.
		The Eighth Bomber Command (Later re-designated 8th AF in February 1944) was activated as part of the U.S. Army Air Forces January 28, 1942, at Hunter Field in Savannah, Georgia.
		Numbered air force bomber units in the theater and at nearby locations also attacked Iraq's Republican Guard and other important strategic targets, while air refueling units provided most of the support to Coalition aircraft.
	www.mightyeighth.org /about_us/history_of_the_mighty_8th_air_force.htm (758 words)

	Remarks to Barksdale Air Force Base Personnel
		Air Force], members and families of the Armed Forces, and ladies and gentlemen.
		Of course, behind every air crew, behind every ground crew, behind every pilot, every mission, stands a mother, a father, a sister, a brother or a child, a family member bearing the quiet burden for which all of America is truly and gratefully proud.
		So on behalf of the nation that you serve, on behalf of the millions in the distant land who may live to see their families and their homes again because you have sent a part of your family far from home, let me offer our nation's deepest thanks.
	www.dod.mil /speeches/1999/s19990412-secdef.html (892 words)

	An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Air traffic control manager Glenn Michael said, “we considered it at that time to be a possible hijacking.” [AP, 8/12/02, emphasis added] According to FAA regulations, that was the correct decision: “Consider that an aircraft emergency exists...
		The threat or threats to Air Force One were announced on September 12, after mounting criticism that Bush was out of sight in Louisiana and Nebraska during most of the day and did not return to Washington until 10 hours after the attacks.
		At Barksdale, a location that was at the time unknown, Congressman Dan Miller “was amazed at the armored equipment and soldiers with automatic weapons that immediately surrounded the plane.” [Sarasota Magazine, 11/01] Bush was driven to base headquarters in a Humvee escorted by armed outriders.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday (10370 words)

	Eugene Hoy Barksdale, First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Service
		Barksdale Air Force Base was named after Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale, a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who lost his life August 11, 1926, while flight testing an observation type airplane near McCook Field at Dayton, Ohio.
		The base was activated in 1942 and named in honor of Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale, a WW I airman killed in August 1926 near Wright Field, Ohio.
		Barksdale AFB is named in honor of Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale, Air Corps,U.S. Army, who lost his life August 11, 1926, while flight testing an observation type airplane over McCook Field, in Dayton, Ohio.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ehbarksdale.htm (753 words)

	Aviation museum guide on Flight-History.com - Museum Directory Listing
		The 8th Air Force Museum is not only a memorial to our successes in battle, but a recognition for the many years spent training to deter war.
		The museum features galleries filled with memorabilia from Barksdale of the 1930's, the 8th Air Force and the oldest aerial bombardment unit, the 2nd Bomb Wing, Dioramas, aviation art and a sculpture gallery depicting Air Force life from barracks to battlefield.
		The 8th Air Force Museum is located at the North entrance of Barksdale Air Force Base.
	museum.flight-history.com /museum/zoom.php?id=67 (280 words)

	1 Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City LA 1959 - 1960
		West from there, a base gate opening on a major North (Bossier City)-South (New Orleans) highway that bounded the air base on that side.
		Inside the southeast corner of the squadron area was a 30- by 40-yard patch of grass the football team used for practice on a few occasions when it was thought opposing teams were spying on us in the barracks area.
		I don't remember his name, but it seems to me he may have been the third of the musketeers who were in the '53 Ford on that final post-separation rabbit-killer trip from Bossier to Phoenix.
	home.san.rr.com /fsheff/photo038.htm (1222 words)

	45:0659(58)CA - - Air Force, Barksdale AFB, Bossier City, LA and NFFE Local 1953 - - 1992 FLRAdec CA - - v45 p659
		It asserts, therefore, that it properly allowed the organizer to solicit on base, adding that it was totally unaware that AFGE had failed to file a petition for representation with the Authority.
		Although the evidence established that the employees were difficult to reach entering and exiting the facility, the Assistant Secretary concluded that nonemployee organizers for a rival union that did not have equivalent status could not gain access to the facility because the employees were not inaccessible outside its premises.
		Upon receipt of such forms, they shall be signed by the Commander, Barksdale Air Force Base, and shall be posted and maintained for 60 consecutive days thereafter, in conspicuous places, including all bulletin boards and other places where notices to employees are customarily posted.
	www.flra.gov /decisions/v45/45-058-4.html (2538 words)

	Air Force BEAR Base Deploys Supporting JTF-Katrina
		HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M - Airmen with the 49th Materiel Maintenance Group here began deploying in support of Joint Task Force-Katrina, the massive relief effort directed at providing humanitarian aid to Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina.
		The 49th MMG, the only Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources Base group in the Air Force, is deploying four BEAR Base sets and about 50 people to oversee setup operations.
		One of the most important functions of BEAR Base is its reverse osmosis water purification systems, which can take most nonpotable water and turn it into water that is safe to drink.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usaf1_090705.00.html?ESRC=airforcenews.RSS (552 words)

	Barksdale Air Force Base
		One of the major bomber bases in the country, and one of only two bases with B-52's (the other is Minot AFB, ND).
		Barksdale is the only complete B-52 crew training center for the country.
		Has a backup command center for the former Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/LA3149 (78 words)

	UFO Folklore Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Description: This base was put on alert during the 1975 Loring AFB intrusions.
		The base is constructed on the edge of the Groom Lake salt bed in the dry Emigrant Valley between two jagged mountain ranges.
		The base, along with others, was put on a "Security Option 3" and was told to prepare to "Defend against a helicopter assault".
	www.qtm.net /~geibdan/newsa/baese.html (1819 words)

	Air Force Link - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force’s top-ranking leaders met recently for a two-day forum at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., continuing a tradition that has shaped the service’s leadership since 1944.
		KORAT ROYAL THAI AIR BASE, Thailand (AFPN) -- Cope Tiger ‘06, an annual multi-lateral exercise involving the U.S., Thailand and Singapore, began Feb. 7.
		Ceremony christens first C-17 in Pacific Air Forces
	www.af.mil (269 words)

	January 2003 Pacific Air Force News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — Warriors and B-52 aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base will join with other Air Force and Navy aircraft to engage and sink multiple moving maritime targets in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 22 and 23.
		Two B-52s deployed from the 2d Bomb Wing to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam are the central focus of the demonstration and will drop the JDAMS intended to sink a decommissioned US Navy Landing Ship.
		Resultant Fury is a significant step in the continuing evolution of joint operations between Air Force bombers and naval forces.
	www2.hickam.af.mil /PACAF/news/release3.htm (328 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Currently, since the last time I was able to talk to the media yesterday, we have had FEMA request our explosive ordnance disposal teams to go out to certain debris fields and debris sites in order to perform safety actions of some of the pyrotechnics associated with the Shuttle Columbia.
		We also have FEMA, National Transportation Safety Board and NASA personnel here on Barksdale Air Force Base that are utilizing some of our office space with computer and communications support in order to organize and coordinate their efforts in this safety and crash investigation.
		But Barksdale is not just strictly or totally or solely involved in the Columbia operations.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0302/02/se.07.html (2256 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		It is there to oversee the recovery effort, to identify the remains, also to examine the wreckage of the shuttle.
		This board is made up of representatives of the United States Air Force, the U.S. Navy, Department of Transportation, FAA, and one representative, senior manager of NASA.
		The other remains will be taken to Dover Air Force Base where the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology can undergo further tests with those remains to determine who they belong to, and hopefully some of the families can bring this whole incident to closure -- Daryn.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0302/03/lt.09.html (526 words)

	Bird control netting on Barksdale Air Force Base installed by Nation Wide Bird Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Barksdale AFB is one of many US Air Force hangars Nation Wide Bird Control has treated for bird problems over the years.
		At Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, we installed over 120,000 square feet of bird netting to cover the underside of the ceiling beams and protect materials, equipment and personnel from bird droppings.
		Bird net is a very effective means of bird control as it presents a complete bird barrier, denying the target bird - pigeon, starling or sparrow - from accessing the protected area entirely.
	www.nwbird.com /barksdale.htm (138 words)

	9-11 Research
		At 12:00 noon, Bush arrived at Barksdale Air Force Base headquarters in a Humvee escorted by armed outriders.
		While at Barksdale, Bush made a speech, saying "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." At 1:44 PM, Air Force One left Barksdale Air Force Base for Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base.
		At 2:50 PM, Air Force One landed at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska.
	911research.wtc7.net /planes/airforceone.html (280 words)

	News Release with Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Airmen supporting B-1B Lancers from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas and B-52 Stratofortresses from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., deployed here with their bombers as other U.S. forces prepare for possible military action elsewhere in the world.
		According to the 7th AEW commander the newly arrived airmen from stateside bases, along with the men and women of the 36th Air Base Wing, who are permanently assigned here, are prepared for anything if they are called upon.
		Guam is America’s most western territory and has been a location of strategic importance for decades, said Colonel George, and Andersen AFB has supported several operations that have required increased military presence on the island.
	www2.hickam.af.mil /news/2003/2003076.htm (341 words)

	Air Force Reserve - List of Bases
		Air Force Reserve announces senior officer moves Details
		The 917th is a composite wing which operates both the A-10A Thunderbolt II and the B-52H Stratofortress.
		Approximately 1,050 Reservists and 520 Air Reserve Technicians (ARTS) work as B-52 and A-10 aircrew and aircraft maintainers, security forces, civil engineers, medical, operations, support and logistics staff.
	www.afreserve.com /bases.asp?id=57 (137 words)

	Air Force Link - Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sergeant Quiles is one of seven Air National Guardsman who maintain the 2,800-acre parcel used for training in air-to-ground operations.
		HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- The Kahu Kordell Kekoa explains the significance behind the traditional Hawaiian blessing, which he administer to PACAF's new C-17.
		The maintainers and helicopter are deployed from the 33rd Rescue Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan.
	www.af.mil /photos (723 words)

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