“The purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate a proof-in-concept that Kingsley Field is capable of hosting large-scale cargo aircraft in the event of a Cascadia Subduction Zone natural disaster.”– Lieutenant Colonel Chris Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard
In June 2019, the Oregon Air National Guard conducted the Cascadia Airlift disaster response exercise. It also included active U.S. Air Force units from Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, and Yokota Air Base in Japan.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 07JUN2019.
The aircrews flew over the Astoria area of Oregon, practicing dropping humanitarian supplies from their C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Oregon’s Kingsley Field has been selected as a location that might still be accessible after a CSZ (Cascadia Subduction Zone) event, and thereby allow government disaster response personnel to operate from.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 03JUN2019.
Oregon Air National Guard music video report, by Airman First Class Adam Smith, about the 2019 Cascadia Airlift Exercise:
But this was not the first Cascadia Airlift exercise, the first one was in July 2018, also in Oregon. This involved C-130Js from Arkansas and Oregon’s 173rd Fighter Wing, on Kingsley Field. This shows the concern over a CSZ as the 173rd operates F-15 Eagle fighters, not C-130J cargo planes: “…we don’t normally host airlift. It was a blank slate and first proof-of-concept.”-Lieutenant Colonel Chris Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith, 14JUL2018.
Oregon Air National Guard music video report, by Staff Sergeant Riley Johnson and Technical Sergeant Jason Van Mourik, about the 2018 Cascadia Airlift Exercise:
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that extends more than 6-hundred miles up the Pacific Coast, from Northern California to Canada, and historically (about every 3-hundred years) has generate 9+ magnitude catastrophic earthquakes, followed by massive tsunamis.
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