[MilCom] "Sentry Eagle" Fri-Sat report (Klamath Falls, OR)

[Ron Cluster]

Quick report on the participants, callsigns and a few freqs from the Sentry
Eagle exercise at Kingsley Field. I watched the afternoon flights on Friday,
Aug 10 and then went on base on the 11th to watch the morning and evening
flights along with the mid-day demos.

Aircraft flying in the exercise included F15, F16, F18, C21, CH47 and KC135R
The short demo period on Saturday included F15, F86, C23 and F117
Statics included F15, T38, C21 and T33 along with a few restored earlier
military aircraft.

The following is by no means complete but here goes:

Shadow Control 116th ACS, callsign "Shadow", are the local military
controllers.
Past freqs I have had for them are:
239.150
259.025
269.025
337.400
359.000

This year Shadow also used:
242.150
371.100

I had quite a few squadron AA freqs in the scanner but never heard anything
on them. All the players seemed to be using their assigned Shadow freq
during the exercise and the regular UHF ATC freqs while at Kingsley and in
transit.

Units participating were:

173rd FW / 114th FS (F15), Kingsley Field, OR
Callsigns: Cowboy, Rogue

131st FW / 110th FS (F15), St. Louis, MO
Callsigns: Mick

125th FW / 159th FS (F15), Jacksonville, FL
Callsigns: Snake

154th Wing / 199th FS (F15), Hickam AFB, HI
Callsigns: Stink, Maitai

144th FW / 194th FS (F16), Fresno, CA
Callsigns: Coja, Rock

115th FW / 115th OG (F16), Madison, WI
Callsigns: Trojan

VFA25 (F18C), NAS Lemoore, CA
Callsigns: Fist, Rage

141st ARW / 116th ARS (KC135R), Fairchild AFB, WA
Callsigns: Expo

119th FW, (C21), Fargo, ND
Callsigns: Nodak

Other participants that I don't have the units for:

2 F15's with "OT" tail code (Maybe Eglin AFB??)
1 T38 static display with "XL" tail code and "Red Bulls" tail stripe
1 C23 Sherpa from the Oregon Army National Guard
2 jumpers from the 125th STS based in Portland (jumped from the Sherpa)

On Saturday they did an F15 demo using a Kingsley F15 piloted by a member of
the West Coast F15 demo team. Thought they would bring their own bird but I
guess not. The F15 then teamed up with an F86 owned and flown by Steve
Hinton for a heritage flight.

Saturday afternoon saw a flyby by an F117. He flew at the Hillsboro, OR
airshow, went up and tanked, did 4 or 5 passes at Kingsley and then took a
clearance to Abbotsford, BC. Callsign was Stealthy 1 (pronounced Stealth-ay)
and the narrator said he was from Holloman AFB.

Anybody have any info to add (or correct....) please jump in.

Ron in Eugene