#Barksdale AFB

[nocternalrandomness]

"Christmas Tree"

[usafphantom2]

Strike Eagles at Barksdale AFB

@kadonkey via X

[captain-price-unofficially]

An airman from the US Air Force Security Police guards a B-52G Stratofortress from the 2nd Bomber Wing as its being loaded with AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles as part of a combat readiness review conducted by Strategic Air Command; Barksdale AFB, December 1986

[j-r-macready]

Barksdale AFB

[lonestarflight]

"At Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana, members of the Mishap Investigation Team (MIT) inspect and prepare debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) for shipment to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida."

Date: February 10, 2003

NARA: 6633277

[torlibram]

"Captain, they appear to be broadcasting a frequency modulated electromagnetic signal. The computer is decoding the patterns... It is audio only."

"Put it on speaker, Ensign."

"Sir."

There was a crackle of static, and then a voice said "-peating, this is Bravo Uniform Foxtrot Four Niner, requesting navigational update and bearing to Barksdale AFB, over."

The Captain looked at his bridge crew. They looked back at him, equally mystified. He looked at the Ensign seated at the Comms console.

"Mr Travis, can you reproduce their emission pattern and broadcast to them?"

Travis nodded and tapped at his console for a few seconds. "Channel is open, sir."

"Attention unidentified craft. This is Captain Bowie of the Imperial Texan Fleet. You are currently thirty-eight light minutes away from Barnard's Star and approximately five point nine six light years off course."

There was silence for several seconds. Then the voice came from the bridge speakers again.

"... Told you we should have turned left at Alberqueque."

“Captain, a human starship has shown up on scanners.” “What is it’s designation?” “They call it a B-52” “Isnt that a plane from 200 years ago?” “Yes”

[jasdafposts]

F15 E fighters Seymour Johnson and B52 Bombers Barksdale AFB. Full flightline.

[nocternalrandomness]

View of the Barksdale Air Force Base flight line from inside a B-52

[usafphantom2]

2BW B-52Hs at Barksdale AFB. (m. kaplan)

@kadonkey via X

[unclesamsmisguidedclub]

USAF May Put B-52 Bombers on Full 24 Hour Alert

USAF May Put B-52 Bombers on Full 24 Hour Alert

In a move not seen since the Cold War, the USAF may put their B-52 Bombers on 24 hour alert status, according to Defense One. NO alert order has yet been given, but preparations are currently underway just in case it comes. “This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared. I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find…

[j-r-macready]

Returned to USAF service - B-52H 60-0034 Wise Guy by Duncan Monk Via Flickr: Seven B-52's sit awaiting their fate at the Boneyard, AKA AMARC at Davis-Monthan, Tucson, Arizona. Of note the top right ex Minot AFB B-52H 60-0034 'Wise Guy' was returned to service and flown to Barksdale in May of 2019, some 15 months after this image was taken.

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A B-52 Stratofortress from Barksdale AFB lands on the flight line at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, Aug. 16, 2022. The B-52s landed at Fairchild to conduct their own Agile Combat Employment exercise creating more multi-capable Airmen ready to deploy anywhere, anytime. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lawrence Sena)

[todaysdocument]

Ten days after 9/11, personnel at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana process through a mobility line prior to deployment to an undisclosed location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, 9/21/2001

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: A line of young men, wearing woodland-colored camouflage, stand in line at a set of long tables. On the other side of the tables, other personnel work at computers. Printers and cathode-ray tube computer monitors crowd the tables.

[nocternalrandomness]

A B-52 from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana seen flying out of Nellis AFB, Nevada

[usafphantom2]

A BUFF getting ready for exercise Global Thunder 25 at Barksdale AFB (Circa Oct 2024). Did you know that the B-52H possesses the most diverse weapons payload capability of any USAF aircraft? From AGM-86 ALCMs to QS-ER underwater mines, the BUFF can carry and deliver it all.

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