Base Name: BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE
Service: Air Force
Description: Emerging from the cotton fields of northwestern Louisiana, Barksdale Air Force Base is an Air Force Global Strike Command base and home to the 2nd Bomb Wing and the Air Force Reserve’s 307th Wing. Also calling Barksdale home is the “Mighty Eighth” Air Force of World War II fame.
State/country: LOUISIANA
Population: 5,214 active duty, 6,900 dependents
Zip: 71110
City/metro: Shreveport
Phone Numbers:
- Main Phone: (318) 456-8400, DSN 312-781-8400
- Information and referral services: (318) 456-8400, DSN 312-781-8400
- Housing: (318) 456-4791/4740, DSN 312-781-4791
- Child care: (318) 456-9688, DSN 312-781-4139
- Schools: (318) 456-4098
- Youth services: (318) 456-3448, DSN 312-781-3448
- Family: (318) 456-8400, DSN 312-781-8400
- Temporary lodging: (318) 456-3091, DSN 312-781-3091
- Health care: (318) 456-8400, DSN 312-781-8400
- Commissary number: (318) 746-8263, DSN 312-781-8410
- Exchange number: (318) 746-2554
Museum: Barksdale Global Power Museum (318) 752-0055
Chaplain: (318) 456-2111/2151, DSN 312-781-2111