2020

Wade Reeves, 79, of Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, died on December 13, 2019 at home. Born October 8, 1940 in Honolulu. He graduated from St. Louis High School in 1959 and retired from the Hawai‘i Army National Guard after 40+ years.  Memorial...

Russell Timothy Kwan Tim Wong, 73, of Hilo, died January 23 at Hilo Medical Center. Born in Honolulu, he was a retired Hawaii Air National Guard 291st Combat Communications Squadron technical sergeant, had also served in the Hawaii Army National...

Off the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Facebook page Hawaii Army National Guard photograph The Hawaii Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 189th General Support Aviation Battalion aircraft conducted hoist operation training on February 8, 2020 at Wheeler Army Airfield, Wahiawa...

Feedback: Last week, Retiree News posted a Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum video featuring a F-102 Delta Dagger #53-366 with its 154th Wing tail flash and “Col John “Saigon” Lee” on the canopy. Former HIANG Commander, Col (Ret) Clinton “Church” Churchill, emailed the following...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph The 199th Fighter Squadron flew the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt from 1947 to 1954. As the Hawaii Air National Guard started flight operations with the P-47, they moved into night operations. The Hickam Field flightline had...

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard photograph When it comes to air superiority, it’s hard to top the capabilities of our Hawaiian Raptors. Unless, of course, you combine their airpower with the world’s most...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph For most of the 1960s, the maintenance control section of the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron was located in the old fighter hanger, Building 3400.  It was a very small room on the second floor,...

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard photograph It’s always exciting to see familiar faces back on our flight line again, such as Tech. Sgt. Cory Snyder, an F-15 Eagle dedicated crew chief in the...

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets...

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Hawaii National Guard photograph Adjutant General of Hawai‘i, Maj. Gen. Kenneth S. Hara, visited Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPH-H) during Sentry Aloha exercise training, January 21, 2020. Approximately 35 aircraft and 1,000 personnel...