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  • 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.

  • 2023 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    U.S. Air Force Colonel Lee Bouma, commander 173rd Fighter Wing, Chief Master Sgt. Dominic Ingle, command chief Oregon Air National Guard, and Chief Master Sgt. Levi Clarey, command chief 173rd FW, present Staff Sgt. Aidan Tumlinson, 550th Fighter Squadron, with a statue during the annual awards

  • Shattering the glass ceiling at Mach 2.5

    When someone says fighter pilot…what do you picture? Perhaps a mustached doppelganger of Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise clad in aviator sunglasses strutting on to the flightline. And while there may be more than a few “Maverick” and “Ice Man” fighter pilots in the Land of No Slack, that is not the only