Month: July 2018

Over the years, many Hawaii Army National Guard members performed duty in the Diamond Head Crater complex. With the HIARNG's move to Kalaeloa, Building 303 (the old Property and Fiscal Office - PFO) is now part of the Hawaii Emergency…

That High School Thing. As we comment in our series on local high schools, “In Hawaii, what high school you graduated from is often among the questions asked when you first meet someone.” Retiree News recently had a post about…

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page A first for Hawaii, but not the last! Great job to the participants of CTF 501, our Urban Search & Rescue exercise, that concluded today out at Kalaeloa! Mahalo to Soldiers from the…

Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown asked Air Defense staff and four Air Guard instructors to provide two trial NCO academy classes, 67-1 and 67-2, for 200 students on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Tennessee. Classes began in the base’s…

From the 154th Wing Facebook page This past Sunday we celebrated Hawaii Air National Guard Family Day. Mahalo to all the ohana, friends, and the dedicated volunteers who came together to make Family Day an overwhelming success. Let's do it…

From the Airman Magazine website Airmen from the Hawaii Raptors conduct an end of runway inspection of several F-22 Raptors as they return from a six-month deployment to the Central Command area of responsibility, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, April 8,…

Beau and Peni, and Micah A retirement ceremony for TSgt Epigene "Peni" Sabagala was held on Saturday , July 7, 2018 at the 154th Wing Dining Facility. Exerepts from the ceremony program: TSgt Epigene "Peni" Sabagala was born in Honolulu,…

1985 Koga family photograph - Jason, Yvonne, Rex and Jan Rex Y. Koga, 79, of Kailua, died in Honolulu on Thursday. June 21, 2018. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by his wife, Yvonne, children MSgt (Ret) Jan,…

This undated photograph shows the F-86 Sabre static display in side the "supply gate" of the then-154th Composite Group. The 154th Wing was designated the 154th Composite Group from 1978 to 1992. It's too bad the statics are gone and…

Brigadier General Robert B. Maguire, 93, former Commander of the Hawaii Air National Guard and retired pilot and executive with Hawaiian Airlines passed away on June 13, 2018. Bob was born on December 5, 1924, in Glendale, California. He earned…