Incirlik Airmen test aircraft recovery capabilities

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  • By Airman 1st Class Devin M. Rumbaugh
  • 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Chadon Bowman (left) and Staff Sgt. Corey Nickles, both 39th Maintenance Squadron transient alert, Crash Damaged Disabled Aircraft Recovery (CDDAR) team members, speak to each other while attaching a decommissioned Turkish air force F-4 Phantom to a crane as part of a training exercise March 30, 2017, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The primary objective of the CDDAR mission is to quickly and safely remove immobile aircraft and return the runway to operational status. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Devin M. Rumbaugh)