Photo Credit: 39th Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is celebrating sustainable building achievements across the U.S. military footprint in Europe. The recently completed Ankara Administrative Facility, a $1.3 million, 15,700-square-foot building, houses the legal, traffic management and post offices serving Incirlik Air Base personnel and their dependents. The building officially opened March 26 and is the first LEED-certified U.S. government facility in Turkey.Read More

Photo Credit: 39th Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is celebrating sustainable building achievements across the U.S. military footprint in Europe. The recently completed Ankara Administrative Facility, a $1.3 million, 15,700-square-foot building, houses the legal, traffic management and post offices serving Incirlik Air Base personnel and their dependents. The building officially opened March 26 and is the first LEED-certified U.S. government facility in Turkey.Read More

Patch High School students are covered in shaving cream March 12 following the PHS math honor society’s Pi Day celebration. More than 1,000 participants from across the community gathered on Washington Square in an attempt to break the world record for the world’s largest shaving cream pie fight. — Photo by Susan Brown.Read More

A delegation of AU journalists visit U.S. Africa Command to learn about the command’s mission and programs. The media delegation visit held Feb. 9-12 was an outreach program developed by AFRICOM Public Affairs to educate and inform top journalists from across Africa about AFRICOM. Pictured left to right are Lina Mohammed Ibrahim from the U.S. Mission to the AU, who served as escort for the AU journalists; Elias Meseret Taye, AP correspondent for Ethiopia and AU; Andualem Sisay Gessesse, correspondent to Nation Media Group of Kenya, based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia; Emmanuel Igunza Kinyaga, BBC Africa’s bilingual correspondent in Ethiopia and Kenya; U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Steven Hummer, AFRICOM’s Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations; Jenine Coetzer, executive producer, English Current Affairs at Channel Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa; Eskinder Firew Azmatch, reporter for Voice of America Amharic, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Robyn Lee Kriel, eNews Channel Africa’s East Africa Bureau chief, based in Nairobi, Kenya; U.S. Air Force Capt. Tamara Carter-Fischer, Media Officer with AFRICOM Public Affairs and lead coordinator for this visit; and Aggrey Mutambo Nyongesa who writes on foreign relations and regional humanitarian affairs for Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper. – Photo by Brenda Law, AFRICOM Public Affairs.Read More