Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Kacy E. Buckingham has graduated from the Air Traffic Control Operations Apprentice Course at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss.

The course is designed to train students to control enroute and terminal air traffic by use of visual, radar and non-radar means at air traffic control tower facilities. Students learn aircraft identification and to initiate and issue air traffic control clearances, instructions and advisories to ensure the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic operating under instrument and visual flight rule.

Buckingham is the daughter of Jennifer J. Buckingham Klamath Falls and Keith D. Buckingham of Bandon.

The airman is a 2004 graduate of Klamath Union High School in Klamath Falls.