Incirlik has more than 1,500 personnel assigned, with more than 200 currently within the eligibility window for incentive pay, military personnel flight officials said. In 2022, 65 airmen elected to stay in the country for another year for the extra $300 a month. It’s available to all ranks at all locations in Turkey. 31 of this year and will be reviewed annually, base officials at Incirlik said. The higher incentive pay is in effect until Dec. More time in one place, he figures, will give him a better foundation as he begins his Air Force career and will allow more time to travel. Devon Canterbury signed up for the incentive pay before moving to Incirlik this spring, his first assignment out of technical school. Some areas in Adana and elsewhere remain off-limits because of security concerns and earthquake damage.Īir Force 2nd Lt. Airmen also can visit select locations outside the base and throughout Turkey at their leisure or through base tours, 39th Air Base Wing officials said. In 2016, the Pentagon ordered nearly 700 military family members to leave Incirlik and two smaller bases because of deteriorating security.īut the Air Force began letting personnel into a roughly 10-block area outside the base in Adana, a city of about 1.8 million, just before the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and Syria in February, killing about 50,000 people.Īccess to those 10 blocks was restricted after the earthquakes but has since been reinstated.
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