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  • 173rd Fighter Wing participates in water survival training

    Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing spent one day training in water survival skills at Lake of the Woods in Southern Oregon July 22, 2016.The aircrew flight equipment section worked in conjunction with a Coast Guard rescue swimmer and helicopter from North Bend to train all of the F-15 pilots

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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,

  • Smith takes command of 173rd Fighter Wing

    A change of command took place April 3, 2016, at Kingsley Field.  Colonel Jeff Smith, who has more than 20 years of military experience, took command of the 173rd Fighter Wing in an official ceremony.Smith has a wide range of experience to including 10 years with the active-duty component and joined

  • Blue Zones project making Klamath Basin home

    Blue Zones is a phenomenon coming to a number of different cities around the United States and elsewhere, and focuses mainly on the research of Dan Buettner who studied areas where a higher-than-normal concentration of people reached the 100-year mark.Healthways, a for-profit health provider, is

  • Airman Spotlight--Tech. Sgt. Kyle Tecmire

    Tech. Sgt. Kyle Tecmire, 173rd Communications FlightWhat brought you to Kingsley Field?I came to Kingsley Field for two reasons.  After 9-11, I felt a calling to serve our country.  Second, I enjoyed working on computers, had taken many electronics courses, and the communications flight seemed like