Barksdale Air Force Base
| Airfield information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: BAD – ICAO: KBAD – FAA LID: BAD | |||
| Summary | |||
| Elevation AMSL | 166 ft / 51 m | ||
| Coordinates | 32°30′07″N 093°39′46″W / 32.50194°N 93.66278°W / 32.50194; -93.66278Coordinates: 32°30′07″N 093°39′46″W / 32.50194°N 93.66278°W / 32.50194; -93.66278 | ||
| Website | www.barksdale.af.mil | ||
| Map | |||
| KBAD | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 15/33 | 11,756 | 3,583 | PEM |
| Sources: official website and FAA | |||
Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: BAD, ICAO: KBAD, FAA LID: BAD) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4.72 miles (7.60 km) east-southeast of Bossier City, Louisiana.
The host unit at Barksdale is the 2d Bomb Wing (2 BW), the oldest Bomb Wing in the Air Force. It is assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command's (AFGSC) Eighth Air Force (8 AF). The 2 BW is equipped with the B-52H Stratofortress bomber, and provides flexible, responsive, global combat capability, autonomously or in concert with other forces, and trains all Air Force Global Strike Command and Air Force Reserve Command B-52 crews.
Barksdale AFB was established in 1932 as Barksdale Field and is named for World War I aviator and test pilot 2nd Lieutenant Avon Barksdale (1896–1926).
Read more about Barksdale Air Force Base: Overview, Units, History
Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or base:
“Speak the speech ... trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it ... I had as lief the town crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)