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  • Meeting holiday package deadlines

    With the holiday season coming up, the Official Document Center is doing their best to ensure that Team Incirlik's packages arrive at their destinations on time. "It is important to mail your packages before the deadlines to make sure your loved ones receive them in a timely matter," said Tech. Sgt.

  • Incirlik's first Thanksgiving flag football game

    Team Incirlik celebrated the kickoff to the holiday season with a Thanksgiving Flag Football game Nov. 23, at the football field where the top five players of each squadron from the intramural football season competed. Tony Mason, 39th Services Squadron fitness director, came up with the idea for

  • Incirlik’s tobacco cessation program helps Airmen beat the habit

    America's Armed Forces have come a long way since Army General John Pershing addressed World War II troops saying "You ask me what we need to win the war? I answer tobacco as much as bullets!" It's safe to say that attitudes concerning tobacco use have changed radically since the WWII days when

  • Action Line 71103 - Bicycle Safety

    Action Line 71103 - Bicycle Safety Question: I was wondering what the traffic rules are for bicyclists on Incirlik? Many times as I walk on sidewalk's around base I have to move out of the way of a bicycle or be run over. Shouldn't they follow the same traffic rules that other vehicles on base must

  • Gen. Hobbins honored as 17th recipient of USAFE’s order of the sword

    With all the pomp and circumstance the U.S. Air Forces in Europe enlisted corps could muster, some 800 guests witnessed the induction of Gen. William T. Hobbins, USAFE commander, into the order of the sword here tonight. The order of the sword is the highest honor enlisted Airmen can bestow on an

  • U.S. Air Forces in Europe command chief master sergeant retires

    After more than 30 years of successful service, USAFE Command Chief Master Sergeant Gary G. Coleman was honored Nov. 16 during a retirement ceremony officiated by Gen William T. Hobbins, commander of USAFE. Chief Coleman will bid farewell to the U.S. Air Force effective May 1, 2008. Special guests

  • DECA team arrives at the “Lik”

    The Defense and Economic Cooperation Agreement team is arriving Nov. 28 and is conducting their 27th annual visit through Dec. 1. The annual visit doesn't assess a pass or fail grade, but rather serves to strengthen the bilateral relationship between Turkey and the United States. This agreement,

  • 39th SFS gets high-caliber training with new firearms simulator

    More than a dozen enemy insurgents staged an assault on two Security Forces Airmen Nov. 9, some of them shooting automatic rifles while others fired rocket-propelled-grenades toward the Airmen's position. Capt. Jonathan Richeson, 39th Security Forces Squadron training and tactics officer, and Staff

  • Turkish pay tribute to the father of modern Turkey

    The Turkish people pay tribute to the father of their modern republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, with nation-wide memorial services on Nov. 10. During the day, this year marks the 67th anniversary of Ataturk's death, the entire country will stop for two minutes at 9.05 a.m., the moment of his death for

  • Health and Wellness Center helps Airmen get ‘fit to fight’

    Some Incirlik Airmen may have lived a healthy lifestyle long before the Air Force implemented its current physical training requirements, but others may need a higher degree of support to attain their health goals. These individuals need look no farther than the 39th Medical Group's Health and