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  • Incirlik celebrates sterling professionals at 2008 annual awards ceremony

    The 2008, 39th Air Base Wing Annual Award winners were recognized at Incirlik's Combined Club, Jan. 30. The annual awards banquet is held to honor the members of the wing that stood-out above their peers during the 2008 calendar year. Airman of the Year - Senior Airman Samantha Navarrete, 39th

  • Trade in uniform blouse for 'shirt'

    "The [first sergeant] is the glue that binds a unit together," said Rodney McKinley, Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force, in "The Enlisted Perspective," published May 5, 2008. In that same document, the world's greatest air, space, and cyberspace force's chief touched on this career field's dwindling

  • Premature twin's courageous fight for life leaves lasting legacy

    Eric LeVon Frazier II, one of two premature twins born Sept. 6 to Tech. Sgt. Barry Frazier and his wife Mandy, died Dec. 10 at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital - but his courageous fight for life left a lasting legacy that will stay with the family forever. With a due date of Jan. 1, Eric and

  • Icy runways set winter ops into motion

    As frigid winter weather ices down everything in its path, flightline operations here must continue. The 86th Operations Support Squadron and the 435th Civil Engineer Squadron work hand in hand to ensure mission success during these frigid winter months. Upon the first signs of winter weather,

  • USAFE Enlisted Heritage Hall encourages Airmen take walk down memory lane

    The U.S. Air Force in Europe Enlisted Heritage Hall offers visitors a glimpse of what the enlisted corps has done and how it has evolved while offering a sense of pride. The Sam E. Parish Enlisted Heritage Hall, named after the eighth chief master sergeant of the Air Force, opened Aug. 26, 2006, for

  • Airmen play Santa Claus at local children's home

    Amidst the new snow that blanketed the countryside, children's laughter could be heard pouring out the windows of the Kelme District Vijurkai Children's Home Dec. 19, here. Airmen from the 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, supporting the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission here, brought holiday

  • Hard work, practice, time and some ice forms Incirlik's drill team

    "Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space," said Tyler Durden, the neo-luddite antagonist in Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Fight Club." Like Tyler Durden's underground fight club, rifle-flipping members of Incirlik's drill team have to sacrifice their

  • Incirlik opens first Starbucks in USAFE

    Incirlik personnel now enjoy desserts and coffee at the first Starbucks in United States Air Forces Europe. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Edward Holzapfel)

  • Stay on nutrition band wagon during holidays

    Fall holidays bring us Halloween candy, Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas ham and cookies, not to mention cold air blowing in, all of which leads to nutrition and exercise going out the window. "When people travel for the holidays they are forced to dine out and tempted to order unhealthy food," said

  • Fulfilling his duty: a wounded warrior's story

    His one remaining arm held firmly on his wife as he toured facilities he could not see and spoke to people he could only hear. Yet, he moved and spoke with an air of strength and patriotism that only a wounded warrior could possess. Staff Sgt. Matthew Slaydon and his wife, Annette, visited several