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  • AETC commander visits 173rd Fighter Wing

    Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander of Air Education and Training Command, made his first visit to Kingsley Field, Oregon, July 6, 2016, to see the 173rd Fighter Wing's training mission in motion. The 173rd FW is solely responsible for training all Air Force and Air National Guard F-15C Eagle

  • B-Course Series: They all graduate!

    In some respects Class 16-ABK ended like it started--with a flurry of activity.Maybe the best indicator of that is the fact that nearly all six graduates of this class graduated on a different day. That is unusual and it reflects a number of things: the fast pace of fighter pilot training in

  • Kingsley Field Eagle Driver Crosses 2,000 hour mark

    The flight from Klamath Falls to Kuopio, Finland is nearly 5,000 miles as the crow flies, and ferrying five F-15 aircraft took roughly 12 hours. Incidentally, those flying hours meant one pilot crossed the 2,000 mark on his next sortie.Maj. Michael Hiatt began flying the F-15 some 13 years ago and

  • ORANG 75th - Evolution of Kingsley aircraft

    Kingsley Field became an Oregon Air National Guard asset in 1981 when the active duty turned over its alert mission to the reserve component.  The USAF used the F-106s in those days but because the 142nd Fighter Wing in Portland, Ore. would man the mission, they converted the alert mission to their

  • Oregon Airmen train in Finland

    More than 100 Oregon Air National Guard Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field, Ore. traveled to Kuopio, Finland for a training opportunity between two partner countries. The exercise is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, but differs from other deployments to the region called theater

  • B-Course profile: 1st Lt. Colton Buechel

    Over the course of the B-Course series we will introduce you to each of the six students who are making their way through the course. This time it's 1st Lt. Colton Buechel's opportunity to explain how he landed an opportunity at the sole F-15C training house.Catching up with Buechel has been an

  • B-Course Series: student pilots perfect warrior skills

    As 16-ABK crosses the halfway point they leave behind the basic aspects of flying and dogfighting in one-on-one scenarios.The F-15 does these things very well, but these students are moving toward the core of what the Eagle was born to do--control the air.Like its namesake, this aircraft has

  • Bringing to life the ORANG 75th Anniversary F-15 Eagle

    The idea started with Col. Jeff Smith in November, when he was the maintenance group commander; he asked if anyone had ideas for a paint scheme to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Oregon Air National Guard. Master Sgt. Paul Allen submitted a nice, albeit small, design for the vertical tail

  • The sprouting of the 'stache - Mustache March recap

    Mustache March came and went with a blink, but not before Airmen around Kingsley Field sprouted their upper lips and tried to bring a real "man-stache" to life.Senior Master Sgt. Collin Grandy said he watched a lot of Tom Sellek re-runs, but he said what put him over the top was a naturally

  • ORANG 75th Anniversary - Changing Network Security Operations

    When Senior Master Sgt. Tina Wilson, plans superintendent for the 173rd Fighter Wing Communications Flight, joined the Oregon Air National Guard in 1985, network security looked a lot different than it does today.In that short amount of time, technology has changed from one large mainframe computer,