Oregon National Guard Servicemembers from across the state are answering the call for help both here at home and in support of other disasters in our nation. More than five hundred Oregon National Guard Airmen and Soldiers, sixty three of them from the 173rd fighter wing, are working together alongside local, state and federal agencies to fight fires across Southern Oregon. Here at the Horse Prairie fire, about eight miles south of Camas Valley, a joint team of 173rd and 142nd fighter wing airmen and soldiers from the Oregon army national guard hold the line against a fire that has grown to more than seven thousand acres in size. They use water hoses to spray down hot areas and keep the flames from growing and pick axes and shovels to...
KINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – Col. Daniel M. Skotte, 146th Medical Group Commander, officially retired from the Air National Guard as potentially the longest serving member from the National Guard and the United States Air Force June 3, 2017, at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore.
TUCSON, Arizona -- Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing and five F-15 Eagles packed up and left the snow and below freezing weather of Klamath Falls, Oregon and spent two weeks in January training in the temperate Arizona desert. The 162nd Wing, Arizona Air National Guard, hosted the Oregon Air National Guard and spent that time flying dissimilar air combat training.
