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  • NCO leads contracting efforts for Patriot mission

    Service members in the first boots on the ground for any mission bear the difficult task of starting from square one. Add an international location and the ordeal has potential to be extremely time consuming and difficult. Here at Incirlik, one NCO is ensuring incoming contracting teams supporting

  • Finishing Strong: 81st maintainers rock final exercise

    A radio squawk sounds across the maintenance hangar. The call sets Airmen of the 81st Aircraft Maintenance Unit into motion like clockwork. Some grab tool boxes and laptops, others reach for their hearing protection.It's an orchestrated effort that every single Airman in that room knows by heart.As

  • Sexual assault victims find help through SVC

    A new program is now available to help victims of sexaul assault.The program, known as the Special Victims Council (SVC), helps guide sexual assault victims through the complications of the legal system, much like the judge advocate general helps with legal proceedings."This is an opt-in program.

  • 39 CS provides support to NATO mission

    The United States, Germany and the Netherlands currently have Patriot batteries deployed throughout Turkey as a show of solidarity and support of NATO's commitment to the defense of its allies, and members of the 39th Air Base Wing are providing many vital services to NATO members who are here as

  • VRS keeps Ramstein's vehicle fleet ready

    Vehicle problems can quickly turn into nightmares. Luckily, Ramstein comes equipped with the only Vehicle Readiness Squadron in the Air Force, who prepare for such problems. The 86th VRS, normally flight sized on other bases, stands ready to repair the largest fleet in the Air Force. Responsible for

  • Purple family supports NATO missions

    Military professionals often depend on each other to watch their backs. These experiences can bond them eternally as brothers or sisters in arms. However, for some service members, the bond is deeper than just a uniform.Two brothers currently stationed in Turkey support separate, yet equally

  • Welcome to the jungle: forecaster supports counterdrug operations

    He didn't know where it was to or what it was for, but when Charleston, S.C., native Tech. Sgt. Adrian Jackson heard a short-notice tasking to deploy was open, he volunteered immediately.However, when Jackson volunteered he had only been here two months."Because he was new to base, he was ineligible

  • Touch 'N Go visits IUS

    U. S. Air Forces in Europe band Touch 'N Go visited here to perform a concert and to give music lessons to Incirlik Unit School students, Feb. 4-7.The band will also perform at this year's annual awards ceremony, Feb 8.Touch 'N Go is the pop music ensemble of the USAFE band. Their song list covers a

  • Aerial porter's first deployment ... France

    Airman 1st Class James Terronez puts his training to the test for the first time in a deployed environment at Istres Air Base, France. Terronez, originally from Wichita, Kan., is currently stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., assigned to the 818th Contingency Response Group as an

  • Eagle pilot upgrades to NATO mission commander

    Capt. Aaron "Buck" Schuett, 493rd Fighter Squadron chief of squadron mobility, always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but he never thought he would be in Spain training to be a NATO mission commander."I thought at some point I'd get to take a vacation to Spain, but not be here, enrolled in a