Top Causes of Homelessness in America. As many as 3.5 million Americans are homeless each year. Of these, more than 1 million are children and on any given night, more than 300,000 children are homeless.
Barksdale AFB Today. Today, Barksdale AFB, located in northwest Louisiana in Bossier City, continues to be a major active military facility and a major contributor to the economy of the Shreveport area. The base has hosted a number of key operational and training elements of the Air Force.
The boldest maneuver by Army Generals is to open a new base in Germany. As the U.S. Air Force closed its old airbase at Sembach, the U.S. Army quietly moved in and renamed it Kaserne Sembach. The airfield closed in 2005, but the Air Force still used the base apartments to house personnel from its nearby Ramstein airbase.