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KINGSLEY FIELD - On June 23, 2023, eleven-year-old Kaelynn Hartman stepped into the hangar at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon to see her artwork adorned to the nose of a 173rd Fighter Wing F-15C Eagle.
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 - Fifty Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing will be activated Sept. 1, to assist with the logistical support of hospitals in the Springfield—Eugene area, with more on standby if additional hospitals request assistance through the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.
Read MoreMEDFORD, Ore. - Volunteer Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing are currently operating on State Active Duty as part of Task Force Guardian, supporting COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Southern Oregon. Team Kingsley personnel are performing three separate missions: administering COVID-19 vaccine to high-risk populations and essential workers, working traffic control in order to maintain safety at the clinics, and performing administrative management of all the records that go along with a large-scale medical operation.
Read MoreThe 173rd Fighter Wing hosted a Blue Zones Men’s Health initiative coinciding with “Movember”, a moniker combining men’s health awareness month with the mustache’s many grow to signify the cause of men’s health initiatives like prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health, and suicide.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - On August 28, Dave Roever, a Vietnam War survivor and motivational speaker on resiliency, shared his story with Team Kingsley Airmen. With the 173rd Fighter Wing Commander’s priority of building Airmen’s total fitness, this event was a natural fit and fell under the Comprehensive Airman Fitness spiritual pillar.
Read MoreThe new 19th Air Force Commander visited the 173rd Fighter Wing to see firsthand the operations at the schoolhouse providing all of the F-15C air superiority training to the U.S. Air Force, Sept. 10, 2019.
U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Craig Wills assumed his command June 13 and prioritized making a visit to the rural, southern Oregon base.
“It’s important to get out and see what is going on at our different flying training locations,” said Wills. “That’s why I made it a priority to come out here.”
Read MoreThe term fitness is everywhere today, from advertisements to hashtags to bookstores; however, there is often confusion as to how it actually defined. Within the military, fitness represents a balance between readiness and well-being, where each of those two conditions support each other.
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