The 8th Air Force Museum at Barksdale AFB has a new name

[Pat Carry]

For those of you that keep track of such things, the museum's new name is Barksdale Global Power Museum http://barksdaleglobalpowermuseum.com

[old iron]

I have to wonder if this is another step in the process of name inflation: Why be a "national museum" whne you could be a "global museum"?

So, the smaller the museum with more aircraft that are detereorating outside the more reason to justify it all with a bigger name?

I am one who belives that words should mean things, so let me propose the following:

> 100 aircraft well maintained and indoors = "national museum"
< 100 aircraft with many valuable aircraft outdoors = "global museum"
< 25 aircraft, all outdoors = "galactic museum"
a few aircraft outdoors are displayed as rusted fragments = "intergalactic museum"
aircraft broken into disassociated elements and molecules = "universal museum"

[Pat Carry]

I have to wonder if this is another step in the process of name inflation: Why be a "national museum" whne you could be a "global museum"?

So, the smaller the museum with more aircraft that are detereorating outside the more reason to justify it all with a bigger name?

I am one who belives that words should mean things, so let me propose the following:

> 100 aircraft well maintained and indoors = "national museum"
< 100 aircraft with many valuable aircraft outdoors = "global museum"
< 25 aircraft, all outdoors = "galactic museum"
a few aircraft outdoors are displayed as rusted fragments = "intergalactic museum"
aircraft broken into disassociated elements and molecules = "universal museum"

Sounds like a pretty darn good idea to me

[Mike]

I suspect it has more to do with avoiding confusion with the Savannah Museum

[p51]

Why not trump them all and call your operation, "God's museum of airplanes and dirty old OD green stuff"?

[Rob Mears]

The Air Force Global Strike Command is based at Barksdale AFB, thus the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Strike_Command

[Adam Kline]

The Air Force Global Strike Command is based at Barksdale AFB, thus the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Strike_Command

Oh come on it's not that easy is it?

[DH82EH]

Yeah Rob! Don't be such a buzz kill!

We were just getting started

Andy Scott

[Ken]

The Air Force Global Strike Command is based at Barksdale AFB, thus the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Strike_Command

THANK YOU Rob! "Global Reach" has been a buzz phrase in the USAF for some time .... now back to unpainted wheel wells and why that B-24 at the Global Museum continues to corrode.

Ken