Incirlik Air Base Trains ‘Multi-Capable’ Airmen
Aug. 31, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force’s push for deployable, multi-capable Airmen has extended to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, a base on the southern flank of NATO, near Russia’s doorstep.
Agile Combat Employment, or ACE, has taken hold service-wide, with wings and major commands exercising how it can have one Airman serve in multiple roles when needed, to be able to run combat operations with a small footprint. At Incirlik, Airmen from across the 39th Air Base Wing trained with U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks deployed to learn these new capabilities, Wing Commander Col. John B. Creel said in an interview.
“If you know more than just your one job, I can send that person that knows how to do more than one thing and I don’t have to send maybe more than that one person,†Creel said. “So the footprint that I need to move to another location for a shorter period of time, that can then project the … combat power, is smaller than if I have to send every single person that does this specific job.â€
https://www.airforcemag.com/incirlik-air-base-trains-multi-capable-airmen/
