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KINGSLEY FIELD - The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, known as the “Thunderbirds”, recently announced the latest addition to their team for the 2024-2025 season, and at the top of the list was Maj. Tyler Clark, a 173rd Fighter Wing Instructor Pilot and Chief of Scheduling.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The Air Force has selected the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing as the preferred location to host the service’s next F-35A Lightning II training squadron. The F-35A is the Air Force’s latest and most-capable fifth-generation fighter.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - The 173rd Fighter Wing is working to establish a line of communication to every Airman assigned to the wing. It’s a challenge every wing, and in fact every organization, military or otherwise, works to address.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - For several days in late April, two KC-135 tanker aircraft from the 141st Air Refueling Wing called Kingsley Field, in Klamath Falls, Ore., home, while they practiced warfighting skills—supplying fighter aircraft with gas being a prime example.
Read MoreKINGSLEY 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. – 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 MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The Kingsley family is a regularly referenced part of working at the 173rd Fighter Wing, a small, southern Oregon Air National Guard base. People say it conveys the tight-knit community shared by Airmen who work, raise their families, and often socialize together.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing is seeking community input as part of their Environmental Restoration Program Community Involvement Plan.
The Air National Guard (ANG) implemented the Environmental Restoration Program to investigate and address contamination that occurred in the past due to leaks, spills or other practices that are no longer acceptable under today’s environmental regulations.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore — The 173rd Fighter Wing finished a week of night flights at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., Thursday, July 16, 2020. These flights are a part of the training syllabus that all incoming students must complete, making night flights a regular occurrence in the Klamath Basin.
Read MoreSALEM, Oregon - Brig. Gen. James R. Kriesel relinquished command of the Oregon Air National Guard and Brig. Gen. Donna M. Prigmore assumed command in a change of command ceremony, January 5, 2019, at the Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Oregon. Kriesel is scheduled to deploy in support of joint operations in Africa. Prigmore is now the first woman to command the Oregon National Guard's Air Component.
Read MoreColonel James R. Kriesel was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and assumed command of the Oregon Air National Guard in a ceremony, January 6, 2018, at the Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Oregon.
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