The Air Force has named US Air Forces in Europe’s 39th Security Forces Squadron at Incirlik AB, Turkey, the best Large Security Forces Squadron for 2006. It is quite an honor for a unit that has “more younger members than any other” he’s been assigned to, says Maj. Bryan Gillespie, unit commander. He told journalist Lori Burling Alves at Incirlik, “This goes to show you it’s not how much you know or how much experience you have, it’s what you do with it.” Over the past year, the Incirlik force has implemented new training and tactics, evaluated long-time vulnerabilities, and developed the base’s first joint security plan with the Turkish Air Force.
More USAF ‘Operational Imperatives’ Likely Coming
Aug. 11, 2022
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall distilled the top fighting priorities of the Air Force and Space Force into seven “operational imperatives” chiefly as a mechanism to identify the spending transitions needed in the fiscal 2023 budget. But they are likely to persist, and more—on electronic warfare, cyber, and munitions—may be…