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Ensuring phone lines never fail

U.S. Senior Airman Muhammad Jackson, 39th Communications Squadron cable maintenance supervisor, checks for bad telephone lines at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. Miles of cable lines crisscross the installation, requiring CS Airmen to manage, install and repair intricate systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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Sending a test signal

U.S. Senior Airman Muhammad Jackson, 39th Communications Squadron cable maintenance supervisor, checks for bad telephone lines at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. Every building at Incirlik is connected by communication cables, which house up to hundreds of smaller wires that connect every part of a building to the rest of the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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Checking the Big Voice tower

U.S. Senior Airman Noah Dray, 39th Communications Squadron Surety Systems technician, helps direct the bucket-lift arm after performing a checkup on a ‘big voice’ speaker tower at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. These Airmen are charged with making sure that the electronic security and alerting measures for secure facilities and the base at large are maintained and functional 24 hours a day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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CS Airmen check the Big Voice system

U.S. Senior Airman Noah Dray, 39th Communications Squadron Surety Systems technician, inspects a part of the base’s ‘big voice’ speaker system from a bucket lift at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. CS Airmen often use tools and perform functions that are normally reserved for Civil Engineering Airmen, typically to lay cable and install or maintain equipment in hard to reach places. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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Manning the bucket lift

U.S. Senior Airmen Noah Dray and Tyler McNaughton, 39th Communications Squadron Surety Systems technicians, operate a bucket lift vehicle to inspect a ‘big voice’ loudspeaker system at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. The base-wide speaker system serves as an emergency notification system, siren and in some locations plays official music to signify the start and end of the duty day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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Playing it safe

U.S. Senior Airman Noah Dray, 39th Communications Squadron Surety Systems technician, dons a safety harness before entering a bucket lift at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2020. These Airmen are charged with making sure that the electronic security and alerting measures for secure facilities and the base at large are maintained and functional 24 hours a day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Hooper, 39th Communications Squadron cable maintenance supervisor, (left), and Senior Airman Jacob Glass, 39th CS cable and antenna systems technician, stare down a manhole May 20, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, popularly called “cable dawgs,” maintain and install cables on telecommunications towers and underground vaults or maintenance holes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

“Cable dawgs” assigned to the 39th Communications Squadron carry their shovels after an afternoon of work May 11, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, popularly called “cable dawgs,” are often mistaken for civil engineers because their jobs take place outdoors and involve vigorous manual labor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

Airmen assigned to the 39th Communications Squadron dig a trench to install cables May 11, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, commonly called “cable dawgs,” install and maintain more than 200 thousand miles of fiber optic and copper communication cables to 550 facilities at Incirlik. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Allen, 39th Communications Squadron non-commissioned officer in charge of cable and antenna systems, uses a shovel to dislodge dirt from a trenching machine May 11, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, commonly called “cable dawgs,” are unique from their other colleagues in communications because their job primarily takes place outdoors. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

“Cable dawgs” assigned to the 39th Communications Squadron carry their shovels after an afternoon of work May 11, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, popularly called “cable dawgs,” are often mistaken for civil engineers because their jobs take place outdoors and involve vigorous manual labor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Men at work: the life of a cable dawg

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brandon Gayton, 39th Communications Squadron cable and antenna systems technician, looks up through a manhole May 20, 2020, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Cable and antenna systems Airmen, commonly called “cable dawgs,” check oxygen levels before entering an underground chamber as a safety precaution. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)
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Titans of Incirlik

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christian Webb, 39th Communications Squadron personal wireless communications systems manager, unboxes APX 6500 mobile radios at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, June 27, 2018. Webb overseas a new infrastructure, that will standardize features and upgrade the bases radio operating system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)
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Titans of Incirlik

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christian Webb, 39th Communications Squadron personal wireless communications systems manager, monitors the Provisioning Manager system to track the enterprise land mobile radio network at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, June 27, 2018. This new system will allow Webb to track, input and remove radios from the network to ensure optimal functionality. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)
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Titans of Incirlik

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christian Webb, 39th Communications Squadron personal wireless communications systems manager, performs an operational check on a radio part at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, June 27, 2018. When the base receives the newer model radios, they will work fully with the new operating system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)
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Titans of Incirlik

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christian Webb, 39th Communications Squadron personal wireless communications systems manager, performs maintenance on a APX 6000 hand-held radio at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, June 27, 2018. Webb oversees and maintains approximately 1,800 radios that will operate on the new infrastructure to standardize features and account for future expansion. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)
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39th Comm Keeps Incirlik Connected

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ily Kendall, 39th Communications Squadron cyber transport systems technician, fabricates an ethernet cable at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Jan. 16, 2018. Cyber transport Airmen manage, maintain and control devices that give Air Force computers the ability to send and receive information from local services, the internet and other networks systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)
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39th Comm Keeps Incirlik Connected

U.S Air Force Airman 1st Class Jovan Parnell, 39th Communications Squadron postal clerk, places a parcel package notification slip in a postal box at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Jan. 23, 2018. Last year the Incirlik AB post office handled over 58,000 pieces, delivering packages to the Airmen and serving as a link between Turkey and the U.S. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)
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39th Comm Keeps Incirlik Connected

U.S. Air Force Airman Jodi Merritt, 39th Communications Squadron postal clerk, assists a customer receiving a package at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Jan. 16, 2018. The Incirlik AB post office employs 14 Airmen to support the morale of roughly 3,000 personnel by providing a convenient way to receive packages from home and abroad. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)
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39th Comm Keeps Incirlik Connected

U.S. Air Force Airman Justin Wilson, 39th Communications Squadron client systems technician, runs a program called PowerShell that gathers network information from specific devices and ensures that everything is working correctly at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Jan. 16, 2018. Client systems technicians add computers to the domain, by ensuring the machines are pulling correct IP addresses and they are connecting to the correct domain, by checking these settings in the program PowerShell. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff. Sgt. Jason Huddleston)
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