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  • Bonding through fantasy football

    With the college football season kicking off Sept. 1 and the professional football season about to begin, a group of Airmen here took their love for the game to another league -- the fantasy football league.A collection of Airmen, spouses and contractors gathered together Sept. 2 to take part in a

  • Protocol pursues perfection

    Before every event, coordination must be done. From the outside looking in, all that is seen is the event. Nobody wonders how the chairs were set up, volunteers found, name placards made or who spent last Saturday afternoon welcoming the distinguished visitor.All those tasks are accomplished here by

  • 817th EAS offers support via resupply, airlift missions

    A deployed unit from the 10th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., has been operating out of Incirlik Air Base contributing supplies to Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn.The 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron's mission is to provide global strategic airlift, aeromedical

  • Airfield management leaves first, last impression

    At the moment visitors arrive at Incirlik and at the time they leave, the faces those visitors see are those of the Airmen working around the clock at airfield management. This is one of the many portions of the mission in which Incirlik's airfield management team takes great pride; though the AM

  • RAPCON: A guiding force for DoD aircraft

    Following 8 ½ weeks of Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and 15 weeks attending the Air Traffic Operations Apprentice Course at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., freshly sculpted Airmen step to their first duty station to become an air traffic controller. Depending on the needs

  • Airmen keep watchful eye from tower

    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! No, scratch that. It was just a plane - a plane being directed by 39th Operations Squadron Airmen in the air traffic control tower. In a position where multitasking is implemental to their mission, air traffic controllers work 24 hours a day ensuring

  • Cultural Considerations: Ramadan to begin Aug. 1

    Prayer five times per day. No food. No drink. All in the month of August when temperatures in Turkey are breaking mercury. That's what people will see in and around Incirlik Air Base when the Islamic month of fasting, called Ramadan, begins Aug. 1. Ramadan ends on Aug. 29 followed by a three-day

  • 90th EARS a force multiplier in air-to-air fueling

    By definition, force multiplier means a capability that, when added to and employed by a combat force, significantly increases the combat potential of that force and thus enhances the probability of successful mission accomplishment. That is exactly what the 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

  • Managing nuisances: Mosquitoes, ticks and strays

    Despite continuous efforts by base agencies to mitigate the effects of mosquitoes, ticks and stray animals, they still present a nuisance; however there are ways that members of Team Incirlik can prevent being affected.While the rainy season is over and it seems as though the number of mosquito

  • Unit works to relay cargo to key points across the globe

    The 728th Air Mobility Squadron is at the frontline of efforts to deliver lifesaving cargo to several key locations across Eastern Europe, Southwest and Central Asia, and parts of Northern Africa.The 728th AMS is a tenant unit to the 39th Air Base Wing and is comprised of approximately 300