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  • Bringing a taste of home to Iraq

    The further you travel from home the quicker you learn things are still very much the same.Army Capt. Mark Stoneman, Bravo battery commander, Task Force One, 30th Infantry Division, found this out after traveling halfway across the world to lead his battery of 100 men on regular convoys to secure a

  • Officer's Force Shaping Board to convene in April

    As the convening date for the Officer’s Force Shaping Board nears, manning levels of more career fields are balancing and increasing the odds for those officers hoping to make the Air Force a career.The Air Force instituted the board to address the imbalance of officers in the 2002 and 2003 year

  • 90th EARS Guardsmen fuel OIF, OEF missions

    While most Airmen at Incirlik are on 15-month or two-year tours, one cog in the Team Incirlik mission has new faces every thirty days.Members of the 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron support Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom by refueling C-17 Globemaster IIIs going in to Afghanistan and

  • Taking care of Incirlik Airmen on all levels

    Imagine if the military personnel of the base were instantly doubled. So, instead of about 1,400 people assigned to Incirlik, there were now 2,500.No need to imagine such an event, it has already happened.“We take the place of active duty personnel,” said Michael Flynn, Vinnell Brown and Root

  • Mentors, tutors help children at Incirlik

    There is a saying “It takes a village to raise a child,” which simply means it takes all of us in a community to instill positive qualities that will help children grow up to be responsible and caring individuals.In our little “village,” the Incirlik American High School and Middle School mentoring

  • Ramstein Airmen train Iraqis to fly, fix C-130s

    Ramstein Airmen deployed to Iraq for five months to train Iraqis to fly and maintain C-130 aircraft; standing up the first Iraqi airlift squadron under the country’s new regime.A Ramstein pilot, navigator and enlisted maintainers deployed from August of 2005 through January to train their Iraqi

  • Incirlik offers plenty of volunteer opportunities

    In 1992, a Canadian cultural group led a study on why people volunteer and found the main reasons were because volunteering provides opportunities for personal achievement, allows people to make new discoveries about themselves and others, and enables them to feel they are forming social bonds and

  • USAFE announces 2005 USAFE NDTA Military Unit award winner

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winner of the 2005 USAFE National Defense Transportation Association Military Unit Award.The winner is:100th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England.