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2025 Pūpūkahi | Volume 55 | No. 2

May 29, 2025

2025 Jun PupukahiDownload CIVILIAN MILITARY PROGRAMS Associate’s medical career starts with poke of a needle By Ruben Duldulao | State of Hawai‘i Department of Defense Public Affairs Hawai‘i Job Challenge Academy Associate Jacob Evans draws blood from his mother, Yvette...

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2010’s Annual Training – Summer Camp – Annual Encampments

May 19, 2025

2010 In December 2009, Troop Command Soldiers participated in Exercise YAMA SAKURA 57 (Japanese for mountain cherry blossom) for the second straight year focusing on the development and refinement of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and U.S. Army Japan (USARJ) efforts...

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Hawaiʻi National Guard Celebrates Spouses

May 9, 2025

Military Spouse Appreciation Day, observed each year on the Friday before Mother’s Day, is a time to honor these remarkable individuals and their invaluable contributions to our military families and communities. First established by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, this...

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1968-1970 Palace Alert

April 25, 2025

Palace Alert by A1C Terry Koenig BRIGADIER GENERAL VALENTINE A. SIEFERMANN is flanked by the first two volunteers for "Palace Alert" Major Gerald Sada (left) and Major Jon Parrish. Majors Sada and Parrish are now flying missions out of Da...

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2022 Mauna Loa Eruption Response

April 23, 2025

When A Sleeping Giant Awakened, HI-DOD Stepped Up To Assist Story by Jill Matsumoto | HI-EMA | December 21, 2022 When A Sleeping Giant Awakened, HI-DOD Stepped Up To Assist (Picture from the 2022 Winter Pūpūkahi) On November 27, 2022,...

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2021 Presidential Inauguration Support

April 22, 2025

Hawaii National Guard supports 59th Presidential Inauguration State of Hawaii, Department of Defense, Public Affairs OfficeStory by Master Sgt. Andrew JacksonThursday, January 21, 2021 U.S. Army Soldiers with the Hawaii National Guard liaise with Virginia State Police to coordinate traffic...

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Fort Ruger and the State of Hawaii Department of Defense

April 18, 2025

Fort Ruger (Picture from the Hawaiʻi State Archives) Early Coastal Defense and the Establishment of Fort Ruger In the early 1900s, the United States began strengthening its coastal defense systems. In a 1905 address to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt identified...

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2018 Hurricane Lane Response

April 17, 2025

The Kīlauea lava flow carried over from FY18 into the new fiscal year and then directly shifted into the response to Hurricane Lane. It was the first time we switched disaster responses in a 24-hour period. Our Hawai'i Emergency Management...

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