Feb. 14, 2024 173rd Medical Group lends expertise to local youth mountain bike team A 173rd Fighter Wing Airman who serves in the medical group saw an opportunity to help a local mountain bike team and arranged wilderness first aid training for more than 25 Klamath Basin cyclists, Jan. 31, 2024.
Feb. 14, 2024 173rd Fighter Wing selected for local Chamber of Commerce President’s Award The Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce selected the 173rd Fighter Wing to receive the President's Award for contributions to the local community in 2023.
Feb. 13, 2024 DAF leaders lock arms, present plan to reoptimize Air Force, Space Force DAF leaders outlined 24 specific decisions during a panel discussion at the AFA Warfare Symposium. The decisions will position the services to better confront China and maintain the hard-won superiority in air and space.
Feb. 12, 2024 Airman Development Command announced, supporting sweeping changes to maintain superiority amid Great Power Competition The Department of the Air Force’s senior civilian and military leaders, Feb. 12, unveiled sweeping plans for reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force to ensure continued supremacy in those domains while also better posturing the services to deter and, if necessary,
Feb. 12, 2024 Air Force, Space Force announce sweeping changes to maintain superiority amid Great Power Competition While the changes feature a mix of near-term and longer-term initiatives, senior leaders emphasized the need for speed. “We are out of time,” Kendall said repeatedly in urging action on the changes.
Jan. 24, 2024 Painting our piece of history, Team Kingsley tail flash The constant drone of equipment accompanies a crew of four 173rd Aircraft Structural Maintenance Airmen who are painting divested F-15C Eagle tails to display the 173rd Fighter Wing’s iconic eagle tail flash.
Jan. 19, 2024 End of an Era: 173rd FW trains the last F-15 Eagle Instructor Pilots It’s a new process for Capt. Andrew Marshall, an aspiring F-15 Instructor Pilot at the 173rd Fighter Wing, but many have gone before him in the nearly four-decade service life of the Eagle. He and one other pilot are likely the last.
Jan. 18, 2024 DAF streamlines awards process myDecs Reimagined, a new application on the myFSS platform, will be a single-page experience and allows ad-hoc routing to any myFSS user. The new application also eliminates the need for multiple screens found in the previous version.
Jan. 3, 2024 Breaking down the sample, Citizen Airmen The call to serve one’s country is different for each of us, Airman 1st Class Kellie Marshall chose to serve by joining the 173rd Fighter Wing in Klamath Falls, Oregon as a citizen Airman.
Dec. 22, 2023 Kingsley Field provides weightlifters better-quality gymnasium The doors opened to an anticipated upgrade to the Kingsley Field gymnasium, Dec. 13, 2023. The 4,800 square foot addition cost just over 3-million dollars, and took nearly a year and half to complete.