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To: amorphous
According to Bloomberg:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-31/turkey-blocks-access-to-airbase-on-coup-suspicion-hurriyet-says

Access has been restored. Prudent to spool up the 101st though. The nukes and the personnel at Incirlik are just hostages right now and the Turks are showing their true colors.

2 posted on 08/01/2016 8:12:04 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian; butlerweave

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.


14 posted on 08/01/2016 9:24:26 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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