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  • Getting out of a sticky situation

    One member of Team Incirlik experienced a frightening situation most of us hear about but never imagine happening. An Incirlik team member and his wife were recently coming back from a movie at the M1 when a baseball-size rock was thrown into their car's front window. Although they were showered in

  • Shop the commissary for holiday gifts, foods

    You probably think of the commissary when it's time to do some holiday entertaining or when making out the grocery list for that all-important Christmas dinner. But the smart shopper, looking for ways to stretch each and every holiday dollar, will carefully peruse the commissary aisles for holiday

  • GSUs complete the puzzle

    If you walk around Incirlik Air Base you can see the different missions. From the 39th Medical Group making sure every member of Team Incirlik is medically ready to ensure freedom's future to the 728th Air Mobility Squadron getting the passengers and cargo to the doorstep of the fight; what each

  • Med group wins more than a dozen USAFE awards

    The 39th Medical Group took home 13 U.S. Air Forces in Europe yearly awards, including two honors for the entire group, making them the most awarded medical group in USAFE for 2006. "We got back awards on about 25 percent of the packages we submitted," said Chief Master Sgt. Tracey Shipp, who helped

  • Incirlik safety members win USAFE awards

    Two members of Incirlik Air Base's safety team are competing for Air Force-wide awards for their efforts in securing the safety of military weapons. Tech. Sgt. Steven Williams recently won the yearly U.S. Air Forces in Europe Explosive Safety Achievement Award, while Master Sgt. Travis Wetzler won

  • Services win USAFE awards

    The 39th Services Squadron proved to be the best in U.S. Air Forces in Europe for the second year in a row when they won the Maj. Gen. Eugene L. Eubank Award. Also the 39th SVS Sultan's Inn Dining Facility proved they were the best garnering the 2007 Food Service Excellence Award. "Our entire

  • Base residents encouraged to take COLA survey

    Turkey is conducting a cost of living allowance survey to determine the correct rate. COLA is affected by two variables: the purchasing power of the dollar when compared to the Turkish Lira and a market basket of goods equivalent to products purchased in the U.S. A COLA survey has not been conducted

  • Turkey-based Airmen saving troops' lives in Iraq

    Hundreds of miles away from the war zone, the efforts of Airmen here are helping keep Iraq-based troops off dangerous convoy routes that are plagued with roadside bombs and sniper attacks. By flying critical supplies via C-17 Globemaster III from this eastern Turkey air base directly to

  • LVIS building ribbon cutting

    Incirlik hit a milestone Dec. 5 when they cut the ribbon at the large vehicle inspection station here. The new $1 million facility will provide better security for the entire community for vehicle coming on to the base.

  • Vinnell Brown, Root: Taking care of Incirlik Airmen

    Take the military population at Incirlik and double it. That's about what we are provided with when you add Vinell Brown, Root - a joint venture between Northrop Grumman Technical Services and Kellogg, Brown and Root - to the active duty U.S. Air Force stationed here. Instead of completing the daily