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KINGSLEY FIELD - A local charity organization was named the 2022 Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Humanitarian Award recipient out of the entire National Guard consisting of 54 states and territories.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore . – A change of command will take place May 15, 1 p.m. at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. Colonel Lee Bouma, who has nearly 25 years of military experience, will take command of the 173rd Fighter Wing during an official change of command ceremony.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing will host a Sentry Eagle Open House on Saturday, June 25 and admission is free.
Read MoreOregon National Guardsmen are traveling to more than 40 hospitals across the state to assist with heavy patient loads and short staffing threatening future patient care, Feb. 4, 2022.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing will conduct night flying operations this week, Monday, January 31 through Friday, February 4. Operations will take place between approximately 6:00 PM through 11:00 PM.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – Fifty-five Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing were activated this week, to assist with non-clinical, operations support to hospitals in Southern Oregon including hospitals in Medford, Grants Pass, Ashland, and Klamath Falls. Additional Airmen are slated to be activated later this month.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing will conduct night flying operations this week starting Monday, November 15 through Friday, November 19. Operations will take place between approximately 4:00 PM through 8:00 PM
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - 173rd Fighter Wing Commander, Col. Jeff Edwards, cut the grand-opening ribbon on the Resiliency Operations Center at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. October, 17, 2021. The newly remodeled center is the home to the Kingsley Resiliency Team, made up of the Director of Psychological Health, Airman and Family Readiness, Chaplain, Health Education Awareness Team, Human Resource Advisor, Equal Opportunity, Yellow Ribbon, and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response offices.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — On an unusually hot Friday at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon, U.S. Air Force Col. Jeff Edwards, 173rd Fighter Wing commander, and Brig. Gen. Donna Prigmore, Oregon Air National Guard (ANG) commander, assembled on the ramp to welcome Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, ANG director, as he stopped to visit Kingsley Field on June 25, 2021.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The initial shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived early this week at Kingsley Field. On Wednesday, February 10, and Friday, February 12 all 100 doses of the shipment were administered to Kingsley Field personnel by the 173rd Medical Group.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing out of Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon has deployed more than 120 Airmen to assist with containment of the devastating wildfires that have spread across the state, and additional personnel from the Wing are preparing to head out in the next few days.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Air National Guard received news Friday from the Secretary of the Air Force regarding the Air Force’s plans to replace the Oregon Air National Guard’s aging F-15C/D Eagles at both Oregon wings with the newly updated F-15EX model. Kingsley Field, Oregon in Klamath Falls, is scheduled to transition to the Air Force’s first F-15EX formal training mission beginning in 2022, and the Portland Air National Guard Base is scheduled to become the first operational F-15EX squadron in 2023.
Read MoreThe 173rd Fighter Wing was forced to cancel the 17th Sentry Eagle air-to-air combat exercise scheduled for July as well as the accompanying Open House.
“I regret to inform you of this, as we all look forward to this outstanding event for Kingsley Field and the community,” said Col. Jeff Edwards, 173rd Fighter Wing commander.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing has partnered with local community experts and formed a working group to address the path forward after quantities of two emerging contaminants were found on the facility.
Read MoreColonel Jeff Edwards, Commander of the 173rd Fighter Wing, Kingsley Field is our guest on the Season 4, Episode 8 of Ask Klamath. In this episode we chat with Col. Edwards about the current status of Kingsley Field, the future of Kingsley Field and take your questions live.
Read MoreA change of command ceremony marked a major transition for the 173rd Fighter Wing when Col. Jeff Smith relinquished command to Col. Jeffrey Edwards who stepped into the top post on June 1, 2019.
Read MoreKingsley Field, Ore. - A change of command will take place June 1, 1:00 p.m. at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. Colonel Jeffrey Edwards, who has over 20 years of military experience, will take command of the 173rd Fighter Wing during an official change of command ceremony.
Read More“Singer songwriter Billy Ray Cyrus wrote one of my favorite songs,” said Colonel Jeff Edwards, Vice-Commander of the 173rd Fighter Wing, and Guest speaker of the Memorial Celebration. “He said ‘All gave some, some gave all,’ but how do we know? How do we know what that was like to give all?”
Read MoreOn June 1, 2019 Col. Jeff “Sled” Smith will step down as the Commander of the 173rd Fighter Wing, and Col. Jeff “Thug” Edwards will take command of the wing. It marks the final chapter in their careers which began when they stepped off the same bus at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1991.
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