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  • Team Kingsley participates in 2nd annual Cardboard Boat Race

    173rd Fighter Wing Airmen and their families gathered together at a local lake July 14, 2024 for the second annual cardboard boat race. This unique morale event challenged different organizations across the wing to design, build, and race a boat through a set course on the lake.

  • 550th Change of Command

    U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Eager, incoming 550th Fighter Squadron commander, accepts the guidon of command from Col. Oliver Lause, 56th Operations Group commander, during a Change of Command ceremony July 19, 2024 at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The 550th Fighter Squadron is the

  • 2nd Annual Kingsley Field Amazing Race

    Airmen from the 173rd Logistics Readiness Squadron man their booth during the 2nd Annual Amazing Race at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., June 28, 2024. Sponsored by the Kingsley Field Rising Six and EANGOR, teams competed with each other, accomplishing challenges stationed around the base.

  • 173rd OG Commander, Col. Nalepa, retires

    U.S. Air Force Col. Jason Nalepa, 173rd Operations Group commander, breaks away from the formation following his final flight in the F-15 Eagle at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., June 28, 2024. Nalepa is retiring after 25 years of service in the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air National

  • 173rd Operations Group Change of Command

    U.S. Air Force Col. Jason Nalepa, outgoing 173rd Operations Group commander, salutes Col. Lee Bouma, 173rd Fighter Wing, signaling his stepping down from command during a formal change of command ceremony at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., June 21, 2024. During the ceremony Nalepa passed

  • Honoring Lt. David R. Kingsley

    Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing gather at the 2nd Lt. David R. Kingsley Memorial for a ceremony honoring the 80th anniversary of Kingsley's heroic sacrifice June 26, 2024 at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Kingsley, the base's namesake, is a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who

  • Team Kingsley flies foreign test pilots

    U.S. Air Force Col. Adam Gaudinski, 173rd Maintenance Group commander, and Capt. Fanny Chollet, a Swiss Air Force Test Pilot, taxi to the runway in preperation for a familiarization flight in the U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. Jun. 10, 2024. Chollet, the only

  • Department of the Air Force launches NIPRGPT

    Department of the Air Force chief information officer and the Air Force Research Laboratory is accelerating initiatives to provide the Air Force and Space Force with the ability to responsibly experiment with Generative AI.

  • 173rd SFS members deployment qualify in Hawai’i

    Is spending two weeks in Hawai’i shooting machine guns on a military range on anyone’s bucket list? Twenty-eight 173rd Security Forces Squadron defenders did just that in early May for their annual training.