August 2019

Retiree Updates - Theodore Merrill: Ted served with the then-203d Combat Communications Squadron and later with the 154th Wing. At the Wing, he was the Wing Historian and the materials he researched are an important part of Retiree News posts....

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) F-22s and maintainers from the 154th Wing conducted joint Forward Air Refueling Point (FARP) operations training with airman from Air Force Special...

Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Congratulations on your retirement after 28 years of service to the Air Force and the Hawaii Air National Guard. Colonel Gregory Scrivner served as the Director of Staff...

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page The Hawaii Air National Guard activated two new units today the 298th Air Defense Group and the 298th Support Squadron and reassigned the 169th Air Defense Squadron to the 298th Air Defense...

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Brig Gen Okahara passes the guidion to Col Carlson | Hawaii Air National Photograph Colonel Dann S. Carlson assumed command from Brig. Gen. Gregory “Woody” Woodrow, 154th Wing of the Hawaii Air National...

Off the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Facebook page Hawaii Army National Guard Photographs | click to enlarge Family members and friends gathered together to welcome home Hawaii Army National Guard Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph | click to enlarge The National Guard Bureau announced that the 199th Fighter Squadron (SE) had won one of the 12 Spaatz trophies for outstanding capabilities in 1949, based on the exceptionally high Operational Readiness...

Retiree News received the following from Kent's wife, Vivian Tsutsumi: Memorial service will be held at Hites Funeral Home and Crematory, in Henderson, Nevada on August 15, 2019, 2:00-3:00 pm. Another memorial service will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii at a...

Photograph courtesy of Edward Cruickshank | click to enlarge Several 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery Regiment (Hiki No) retirees/former members attended the Oahu Veterans Council meeting last Saturday. In this photograph are L-R: Keith Tamashiro, Bruce Spear, Irwin Cockett, Steve...

Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph This undated photograph shows the F-102 flightline in the mid-1960s. In the foreground are two F-102 Delta Daggers on the flightline, and three in the radar docks in the background. On the left side of...