LSU Shreveport Veterans Resource Center

If you are local to Shreveport and love music, check out the USAF Band of the West. They will be playing at the Municipal Auditorium downtown on Monday September 7th. Follow their page for more information and reserve your free tickets now! 🎺🥁🇺🇸

We're heading to the ArkLaTex next month!

Our concert band is bringing inspiring performances to:
📍 Shreveport
📍 Longview
📍 Tyler
📍 Natchitoches
📍 Monroe

🗓️ September 7–11

Don't miss your chance to experience one of the nation's premier concert bands live. Visit the link in the comments for more information and to reserve your FREE tickets!

ICYMI we're debuting a new tradition next month!

We recently announced a new graduation tradition that honors our veterans and service members who cross the LSUS graduation stage. Starting with our Summer Class of 2026, the LSU Shreveport Veterans Resource Center will host a Military Coining Ceremony the day before each commencement ceremony where our service-connected students and their families are invited to campus to celebrate their achievement. 🇺🇸🎓

Register and learn more: https://www.lsus.edu/military-coining-ceremony

Attention, members of our military and veteran community! 🇺🇸

We will be making an exciting announcement with the LSU Shreveport Veterans Resource Center this Friday. Can you guess what it is? 🎓 Stay tuned!

💜 In Honor of National Purple Heart Day 💜

Today, we pause to remember the brave men and women who were wounded or gave their lives in service to our nation. The Purple Heart is more than a medal — it is a testament to sacrifice, courage, and the price of the freedom we hold dear.

To every Purple Heart recipient: your wounds, seen and unseen, tell a story of selflessness that words can never fully honor. And to the families who have loved, cared for, and mourned alongside them — we hold you in our hearts today and always.

At the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, we are humbled to serve those who gave so much. Today, and every day, we say thank you. 🇺🇸

We honor you. We remember you. We stand with you.

Thank you Overton Brooks VA Medical Center for serving our female veterans locally.

Thank you to all the military dependents. While we honor those that serve our country, it can be easy to overlook the sacrifices that service members' families make every day, from missing a parent for kids' soccer games, constantly moving/changing schools, to survivors of service members that made the ultimate sacrifice.

We want to say thank you to these families that support all our servicemembers on the home front every day! Thank you Bossier Chamber of Commerce for celebrating our local military dependents!

| While we celebrate military children year-round, this month gives special recognition to their incredible strength and .

Military-connected kids often move 6–9 times during their school years—continually adapting to new schools, friendships, and communities. Their flexibility, courage, and positive spirit deserve to be honored.

Today, the Bossier Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the 3,600 military-connected children in Northwest Louisiana by lighting the Texas Street Bridge purple at 7:30 p.m., following a proclamation at 6:30 p.m.

The 307th Bomb Wing is deeply grateful to the Bossier City and Shreveport communities for not only welcoming our , but for embracing and supporting our children as well.

If you plan to attend, wear purple and join us at the Louisiana Boardwalk riverfront for the proclamation. 💜

Barksdale Air Force Base | Air Force Reserve

Tomorrow we will be honoring all military child dependents with treat bags. If your parent served in the armed forces swing by for a sweet treat before class from 10:00 to 12:00 in front of the Veterans Resource Center. Thank you Leigh Anne Chambers and the LSUS Military Committee for hosting this event in honor of our military dependent students! 🇺🇸