Sept. 18, 2024 STARBASE Louisiana achieves another milestone You’ll have to excuse Easton Verheyden for seeming a little stunned. The Princeton Elementary student had no idea he was the 40,000th fifth-grader to enter the STARBASE Louisiana program when he stepped off the bus here Sept. 17.
July 13, 2020 Revolutionizing Aircrew training through virtual reality A new virtual reality trainer is one step closer to potentially transforming the way B-52 Stratofortress student pilots train for combat. The Virtual Reality Procedures Trainer, released during a milestone demonstration of its capabilities July 7 at StrikeWerx in Bossier City, Louisiana, may even
June 4, 2019 Reserve Citizen Airmen help demonstrate new naval mine technology Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 307th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here assisted the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron in using a B-52 Stratofortress to demonstrate the Quickstrike 64-Extended Range (QS-ER) naval mine project out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hickam, Hawaii during the week of
July 18, 2018 It’s all mines As he moved munitions around the bay unstrapping and re-strapping them to trailers, Airman 1st Class Elliot Broger, a conventional weapons maintainer assigned to the 2nd Munitions Squadron, knew that his job was fairly average for an ammunitions maintainer.But, he also knew his mission was very
May 2, 2016 Airshow offers sky high entertainment A plane performs aerial acrobatics in front of “The Lone Star Lady II,” a B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing, during the Barksdale Defenders of Liberty Air Show on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 1, 2016. Thousands of spectators travelled to the base to see a wide variety of