Posted on 07/22/2016 7:05:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Power was restored Friday to the base in Turkey used by U.S. and coalition forces for airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, American officials said.
Incirlik Air Base in the southern part of the country had been without power since July 16 and relying on generators to conduct the strikes following the attempted military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"We will retain this capability should the power be interrupted again," officials from U.S. European Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a release. "Meanwhile there is a steady flow of hot food, water, and fuel to support our service members and civilians in Turkey."
The statement continued, "The U.S., in close coordination with the Turkish Military, will continue to work towards ensuring our facility, the U.S. service members who live and work on it, and the operations occurring there remain fully prepared to take on a myriad of missions as we work together to defeat terrorism."
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook this week said more than 3,000 military personnel live and work in Turkey, mostly with the 39th Air Base Wing at Incirlik. They are joined by about 100 military dependents in the country after voluntary evacuations last September of about 600 military families following the terror attacks on the Brussels airport and metro.
The U.S. Air Force has deployed F-15, F-16 and other aircraft to the installation to carry out airstrikes against ISIS.
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Since the country is now hardline muslim, it took them a week to find someone with enough intelligence to operate a switch.
Is the US military able to fly in and out of the base now?
If so, get those stored nukes out of there , fast.
Dependents right behind them.
No time to take a chance of either being taken hostage..
Strip the place to the walls and leave one nuke behind...wired up to enough booby traps to make the Vietcong jealous. Publicly state that one high-value asset had to be left behind and sit back and wait for the fireball.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Don’t bet on either of those two things happening. DoD isn’t doing a thing to make the caliph look bad.
I’m just happy the power is on.
Ditto. We must be mindful of Americans serving in dangerous places.
How many B61’s are missing ?
They need to spirit the nuke material and all personnel out of there right quick.
That’s what they need to do.
This white house will hand it all over to Erdogan’s islamists.
We should move those tactical nukes off that base.
Good news. And any country that suspends human rights laws and installs emergency powers for 3 months, is not a safe place to store nukes.
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Yours was made at 12:53 PM.
Pardon any trouble, FRiend.
I was looking at Breaking News and saw your thread there after mine.
At any rate, this development is Good news for our airmen, their families and securing all ordinance there!
We gotta get out of Turkey and treat them as the Islamo enemy state they are turning out to be.
Like you, I am worried about the new Turkish Caliphate. Trouble's on the way.
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