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  • Action line 81117 - Dorms

    Complaint: My question/concern is about the living situation in the dorms. There are instances in the dorms where a ratee and rater are sharing a bathroom (suitemates), and several more instances where NCO's and the Airman they work with are sharing the bathrooms. With a CRO these NCO's could easily

  • Turkey celebrates New Year, not Christmas

    You might have already noticed that shops throughout Turkey decorate their windows with pine trees, snow balls, red stockings and statues and pictures of St. Nicholas. It may seem as though Moslem Turks are observing Christmas like the Christians, but they aren't celebrating Christmas: They're

  • Officials streamline overseas outprocessing guidelines

    Air Force Personnel Center officials here recently introduced a new initiative that will streamline final processing for Airmen retiring or separating from overseas areas. With this change, additional travel to a separation processing base, or SPB, is no longer required. The new procedure is part of

  • Action Line 80916 - base taxis

    Complaint: I have only been at Incirlik about six weeks and my car is not here yet, so I am relying on the base taxi service for most of my transportation needs.I have spent many years overseas, so I am not new to dealing with foreign nationals or exchange rates. Most mornings I catch a taxi from

  • Turkish government to change currency name, introduces new denomination

    The Government of Turkey will change the name of their currency Jan. 1. The new names will be "Turkish Lira" for the paper currency and "Kurus" for coins. The current name of Turkish paper currency is "Yeni Turkish Lira," or "New Turkish Lira" Coins called "Yeni Kurus" or "New Kurus". Even though

  • Stay on nutrition band wagon during holidays

    Fall holidays bring us Halloween candy, Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas ham and cookies, not to mention cold air blowing in, all of which leads to nutrition and exercise going out the window. "When people travel for the holidays they are forced to dine out and tempted to order unhealthy food," said

  • Hard work, practice, time and some ice forms Incirlik's drill team

    "Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space," said Tyler Durden, the neo-luddite antagonist in Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Fight Club." Like Tyler Durden's underground fight club, rifle-flipping members of Incirlik's drill team have to sacrifice their

  • Izmir Chapel Christmas Concert builds good will

    An audience comprised of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Component Command Air Izmir and 425th Air Base Group personnel attended the Christmas concert held Dec. 5 at the St. John's Cathedral in Montrö, Izmir. The concert was arranged by Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatory faculty members