September 2025

WATCHING FOR SIGNS – State Civil Defense Response Team checks the monitors for Chilean tsunami warning updates, Feb. 27, 2010. State Civil Defense photo THE LAST SUMMIT – (Top right) Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, head, International Cantre for Political Violence &...

pupukahi OCT 2025 FOR WEBDownload STATE OF HAWAI‘I DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE State responds to tsunami warning On July 29, a tsunami warning was in effect after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. The Hawai‘i Emergency...

BURNING CONTROL-A Hawaii Army National Guard CH-47D Chinook helicopter fights the fire over Waipio Gentry in June. Ken Ige, Honolulu Star-Bulletin photo "H2O FREEWAY - The temporary bypass road to the North Shore of Oahu was affectionately call the H20...

Brian S. Yanagi Leighton Ah Cook (Pictures from the 1990 April – June Pūpūkahi) Maj. Gen. Alexis T. Lum, director, Hawaii State Civil Defense (SCD), signs the updated Hawaii State Emergency Broadcast System Operational Plan, Dec. 11. Sitting (left) are...

Civil Defense officials meet to plan and determine agency responses to disaster situations. Civil Defense personnel work closely with local radio stations to alert the public of disasters. (Pictures from the 1980 Annual Report) EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT - Jack...

The new Hawaiʻi Army National Guard MEDEVAC can trace it's lineage back to Charlie Company, 7th Battalion-158th Aviation Regiment, Oregon Army National Guard's MEDEVAC unit headquartered in Salem Oregon. In August of 2016, C Co 7/158th redesignated to Golf Company,...

(Picture from the 1970 Annual Report) NATIONAL GUARD SUPPORTS COMMUNITY (Picture from the 1970 Spring The Hawaii Guardsman) New radio and teletype equipment increased State CD com­munications capabilities during FY 71. Mr. John N. Butchart Vice Director of Civil Defense...

CD displays attracted thousands during Armed Forces Day 1962. On display were communications equipment, Jimmy Walker's mobile radio unit, fallout shelter supplies, radiological equipment and medical supplies. Short wave radio sets within CD Emergency Operating Center can maintain communications during...

The command "Hapai-Pu" was heard in the Nation's capitol during President Johnson's inauguration. (Picture from the 1971 Fall The Hawaii Guardsman) 'We Paraded for President Johnson By SMSGT THEODORE D. HUSSEY Air Guardsman, MSgt George Ah Chong, a corporal in...

Staff Sgt. Charles Browning Company B, 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment, Arizona Army National Guard Staff Sergeant Charles Browning was born on March 6, 1976, in Whidbey Island, Wash. He attended high school in Tucson, Ariz. Browning worked for the...

Cpl. Glenn Watkins Company A, 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment, California Army National Guard Corporal Glenn J. Watkins was raised in the California sunshine of the San Diego area. He had spent his younger years in the Navy and in...

Combat First Lt. John Kauhaihao Company C, 2nd Battalion, 299th Infantry Regiment First Lieutenant John K. Kauhaihao, 27, was born in Honaunau / Capt. Cook, Hawaiʻi, April 17, 1942. He enlisted in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard as an infantryman...