HING History

1957 June Hawaii Guardsman Vol#VIII No#2

In March, pilots from the 199th Fighter Squadron assisted in the rescue of three civilians who ditched a twin-engine aircraft in the ocean 120 miles north of Maui. Two F-15s were scrambled from the alert pad at Hickam, rendezvoused with...

HIANG Participates in Drug Interdiction Mission by 1Lt. Charles J Anthony, HIANG PAO On October 20th, members of the Hawaii Air National Guard deployed to Howard Air Force Base, Panama, in support of Operation Coronet Nighthawk. The operation is part...

Royal T. Frank survivors celebrate 53rd reunion "The Torpedo Gang" -- (Front row, left to right) George Taketa, Yoshio Ogomori, Shigeru Ushijima, Haruo Yamashita, (back row) Shizuo Toma, John R. Souza and Takimaru Takamoto. Guard vets remember lost shipmates page...

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)