[drop 50 and fire for effect]

This article stinks with BS. The 101st is has not been capable of rapid response for decades. It and its Brigades are Air Assault not Airborne. It takes them up to 45 days to get anywhere as they have pack up their helicopters and send them by sea.

If there was a true crisis at Incirlik, the call would have to go to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Europe, the Division Ready Brigade from the 82nd at Fort Bragg, and/or a Marine Expeditionary Unit afloat.

The Turks are too busy cleaning house and purging their military of real or imagined opponents of Erdogan. If he wants to expel us and NATO from Incirlik, he will likely wait until he has firm control of his military. Right now, accusing us of supporting the coup is a useful lie to deflect scrutiny of his own regime.

[Former Proud Canadian]

"The 101st has not been capable of rapid response for decades."

Well, that's not very good news, is it?

[justa-hairyape]

Erdogan is actually replacing the entire military with an Islamic Police Force. They just claimed over 90% of military is loyal to Gulen. They will probably call the new military some type of Islamic Guard Force. What gets activated here in the states, is probably for replacing the forward deployed forces that enter a theater.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

The article is very poorly constructed; it is really two different articles. The first article concerns an alert status and the second concerns Incirlik.

Ignore the Incirlik article.

Here's the key phrase: "We were told at a safety briefing that it could be for anything, such as an attack on Clarksville and Nashville." The concern is local, very local.