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  • Fan installation to reduce energy use

    The installation of 121 fans in 29 buildings across base is likely to reduce energy use and cost of heating systems operation during colder months. The project, which has a maximum cost of approximately $86,000, is estimated at having a payback time of slightly more than 8 months and saving the base

  • Feeding Freedom Tour wraps up at Incirlik

    OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill, Flemings Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar and Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine, wrapped up its 18-day Feeding Freedom Tour here Oct. 23 during the Fall Fest. This is the seventh year OSI has

  • MOH recipients take time to visit NCOs, wounded warriors

    As part of an Armed Forces Entertainment tour, two Medal of Honor recipients visited wounded warriors and the current class of the Kisling Noncommissioned Officer Academy Oct. 23. Retired Army Col. Robert Howard and Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Littrell flew to Germany at the invitation of the Department

  • USAFE Band tours Poland after months of planning

    The U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band played six concerts in Poland Oct. 20-25 to celebrate and commemorate 90 years of Polish-American cooperation. This concert series took Staff Sgt. Meredith Healy about two months of planning to pull it all together. The most labor intensive part of her job

  • 17th Air Force gives HQ ultimate makeover

    17th Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Ron Ladnier may have put it best when he described the new unit in its first year of operation as "like building an airplane while in flight." The General was referring to conducting operations and engagement in Africa while tailoring the unit to suit the evolving

  • Spouse program a "Key" to communication

    As part of the July 2009 - July 2010 Year of the Air Force Family initiative, the Air Force launched a revised and standardized Key Spouse program - a program Incirlik has embraced. "The program is a very effective tool for communication," said Laura Hobbs, the Airman and Family Readiness Center Key

  • USAFE Band plays six concerts in Poland

    WROCLAW, Poland - Forty-one Air Force musicians from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band are playing six concerts Oct. 20-25 in Poland to celebrate and commemorate 90 years of Polish-American cooperation. This concert series supports the commander's international outreach program in partnership with

  • 86th VRS shop enhances warrior care with new vehicle

    The 86th Vehicle Readiness Squadron special purpose shop here recently reconfigured the generation two high deck patient loading platform vehicle, or HDPLP, in a record six days to make it operable for the 86th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility. Receiving the vehicle Sept. 29, the shop had to