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By legislative mandate, the Adjutant General's interim Task Force on National Guard Recruitment and Retention enabled the State Legislature to pass a bill during the 1994 session that allows Guard members to use the Montgomery G.I. Bill concurrently with the...

CH-47D Chinooks join Hawaii Army National Guard arsenal By Gaye S. Sakamoto Sgt. Fred Domingo (front) and Sgt. Roy Nitta of the 1st Battalion, 193rd Aviation push a CH-47D Chinook aft pylon across the Hickam Air Force Base flightline, Nov....

The 50th Quartermaster Detachment (50th QM DET) unit activation ceremony at the Waiawa Armory in Pearl City on Feb. 3. 2024 to formally and publicly recognize the 50th QM DET as the newest unit of the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. Tiger...

JTF-50's Dedicated Safety Efforts Continue in Lahaina After Wildfire 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Story by Staff Sgt. Matthew Foster | Friday, September 1, 2023 (Picture from the 2023 Summer Pūpūkahi) U.S. Soldiers and Airmen of the Joint...

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State Department of Defense first to respond Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Maj. Wayne N. Yoshioka and Staff The eye of Hurricane Iniki passed directly over Kauai on the afternoon of Sept. 11. (Picture from the 1992 August – September Pūpūkahi)...

September Sep. 13, 1992 Photo from Honolulu Star Bulletin and Advertiser "Hurricane Iniki" Sep. 14, 1992 Photo from Star-Bulletin "Grave health dangers abound in wake of Iniki's destruction" A-1F 09.14.1992 Star Bulletin ArticleDownload Sep. 15, 1992 Photo from The Honolulu...

(Pictures from the Hawaiʻi National Guard Archives)

WATER RELIEF, Lihue Kauai, Sept.17, 1992: Ann Bowers of Hanamaulu, Kauai gets a helping hand from Spec. Reginald Daguman of the 297th Supply and Service Battalion . Members of Wahiawa's 29th Supply and Service Battalion have set up five distribution...

Kauai: Guard helps during flood Vehicles and personal property were strewn by the flash. flood that hit Anahola Valley, Kauai, Dec.14. (Picture from the 1991 October – December Pūpūkahi) Eleven Air and five Army Guard personnel assisted county and civil...

In September, the Hawaii National Guard Association (HNGA) hosted the 113th National Guard Association of the United States annual conference. More than 3,000 persons attended the three-day event that culminated five years of planning, coordination and hard work by HNGA...

Air Guard to get tankers A KC-135R Stratotanker (left) refuels an F-15 Eagle. The Hawaii Air National Guard's new 154th Air Refueling,Squadron will be receiving four KC-135Rs. (Picture from the 1991 April – June Pūpūkahi) The Office of the Secretary...