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  • Gage Craig, 17, a visitor to the 2019 Defenders of Liberty Airshow from Ruston, Louisiana, performs pull-up while Tech. Sgt. Jason Castillo, a recruiter for the 307th Bomb Wing, cheers him on during the air show at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 18, 2019. Castillo and other recruiters from the 307th BW set up a station at the air show to give vistors a glimpse of what a career in the Air Force Reserve could look like. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Maxwell Daigle)

    307th Bomb Wing Recruits, Remembers and Educates during 2019 Defenders of Liberty Air Show

  • Dr. Rick Bateman,Jr., Bossier Parish Community College chancellor, U.S. Air Force Col. Steven Kirkpatrick, 307th Bomb Wing commander, and Dave Smith, Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program executive director, present Dakota Ferry with a check in Bossier City, La., May 14, 2019. Ferry, a BPCC student, won first place in the 2-Minute Drill, a contest for budding entrepreneurs co-sponsored by the 307th Bomb Wing. The presentation was part of the inaugural AirShow Innovation Showcase, an event highlight achievments of innovative business that utilized the EAP as a resource. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Ted Daigle )

    307th Bomb Wing supports inaugural Air Show Innovation Showcase

    The 307th Bomb Wing teamed up with Bossier Parish Community College, Building our Region’s Future and the Entrepreneurial Accelerator program to sponsor the first Air Show Innovation Showcase at BPCC,
  • A note found inside the cockpit of Wise Guy, a B-52 Stratofortress, is displayed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The jet has been a the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008 and was recently flow out to be restored to active service. (courtesy photo)

    Wise Guy back in the sky

    A team of Reserve Citizen Airmen and active duty maintainers spent four months prepping Wise Guy, a B-52 Stratofortress for flight. The bomber had been at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008.
  • Photo illustration for enlistment bonus story. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)(This image was created using a fill gradient)

    Boning up on enlistment bonuses

  • U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sara Jo Danis, 18th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, explains an air refueling operation to Maudie Taylor, May 2, 2019. Taylor, one of several local influencers at Dyess Air Force Base, was taking part in a civic leader tour to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The tour allowed the civic leaders to see several important facets of the Air Force mission, including an air refueling of a B-52 Stratofortress, an Air Force research laboratory tour, and a medical demonstration aboard a C-17 Globemaster III. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)

    Dyess AFB civic leaders head for Ohio

  • Service components chiefs, designated representatives and caucus members, pose for a photo at the House National Guard and Reserve Component Caucus Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C., April 30, 2019. The NGRCC is one of the largest in Congress and was created in 1996 to ensure National Guard and Reserve components have the tools, training, equipment and leadership they require to complete their missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Andreaa Phillips)

    Scobee Focuses on Retaining Airmen at Caucus Breakfast

    The House National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus hosted a breakfast with National Guard and Reserve service chiefs on Capitol Hill, April 30. Senior leaders from each component discussed their top issues and emphasized the need for predictable and stable budgets. In addition, Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, Chief of the Air Force Reserve and Air Force Reserve Command commander, spoke on the importance of retaining Airmen in today’s Air Force Reserve.
  • Alyssa Carson, a high school senior training to become an astronaut, visited Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, April 26, 2019. She was on hand to deliver an inspiration message to STARBASE 2.0 students and to answer their questions about her quest to become the first person on Mars. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)

    STARBASE guests have Martian mindset

    Alyssa Carson and Danielle Roosa are two people with their feet on the ground and their minds on outer space. They came to speak with STARBASE students about their passion for space travel during a
  • Notice of updated OCP guidance

    Air Force senior leaders update OCP uniform guidance

    The Air Force announced April 23 new rules on Operational Camouflage Pattern uniforms that aim to better fit the needs of Airmen and the jobs they do while also holding fast to tradition.
  • On April 18, 1942, airmen of the US Army Air Forces, led by Lt. Col. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire with a surprising and daring raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya and Kobe. This heroic attack against these major cities was the result of coordination between the Army Air Forces and the US Navy, which carried the sixteen North American B-25 medium bombers aboard the carrier USS Hornet to within take-off distance of the Japanese Islands. A pair of alert escorts follow the USS Hornet to protect her lethal cargo of B-25 bombers. The aircraft carrier Hornet had 16 AAF B-25s on deck, ready for the Tokyo Raid.

    Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the Doolittle Raiders made history, planted the seeds for today’s Air Force

    When Lt. Col. Dick Cole pushed the throttles forward April 18, 1942, to coax the lumbering, indecisive B-25 Mitchell bomber off the rolling deck of the USS Hornet for an audacious raid on Tokyo, he had no conception of space as a warfighting domain. “Cyber” would not be a word for several more decades; drones, GPS and mid-air refueling were nothing more than fanciful science fiction.
  • Five B-52 Stratofortresses deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., fly a sortie over Norway, March 28, 2019.

    Industrial Hardware does their part to keep B-52 engines running

    Imagine ordering parts for a major auto repair shop that supplies hardware to maintain engines for 76 vehicles. Although it’s 2019, the newest vehicle in the fleet was built in 1962. Each of those 76 vehicles have eight engines, and their ability to operate is critical to national security. This is a job that some of the employees at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Industrial Hardware supply chain perform every day in supporting the sustainability of the TF33 engines that power the Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress, the service’s self-proclaimed “backbone of the manned strategic bomber force,” according to the Air Force’s B-52 fact sheet.
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