Year: 2021

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page The Hawai‘i Air National Guard hosted their annual Launa‘ole awards ceremony this weekend. Congratulations to all the winners of these Launa‘ole awards Fulltime Award Winners: Airman of the Year -- Senior Airman Aaron…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photographs shows Stanford Lum. He served in the hydraulic shop for many years when it was part of the Field Maintenance Branch. Another of the great maintenance personnel who served in the 154th…

Bob Sigall is a Star-Advertiser writer, whose weekly column, Rearview Mirror, looks back at Hawaii’s past. He also shares additional material in biweekly emails. In the middle of the current news about Aloha Stadium and its replacement, he emailed this…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph The National Guard Bureau extended Federal Recognition to the Hawaii Air National Guard on November 4, 1946. Th initial operating location was Bellows AFB in Waimanalo. The 199th Fighter Squadron and associated units relocated to…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows a flightline mechanic guiding a McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom returning from a training flight. The old civil engineering building (now gone) and Battery Selfridge are in the background. A long time…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows Kenneth "Kenny" Camara. Kenny's career in the maintenance complex began in the 1950s. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew North American F-86 Sabres. Kenny was a mainstay through the Convair F-102 Delta…

Imagine this: Mom takes a trip to the commissary with her seven children. All of a sudden, Mom demands that everyone "Fall in," and immediately a straight lines forms, shortest to tallest. Sometimes there's a scuffle, things get a little…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph The 199th Fighter Squadron began flying McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantoms in 1976. Coming out of conversion status, one of their first deployments was to Anderson AFB, Guam. This undated photograph show Benet Costa on the…

Escolastico (Koy) Mira passed away on Jan. 19, 2021, at the age of 91 . He was born on February 10, 1929. He was a retired Veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force. He served in the Operations Section…

From the Garden Island website In February 1973, Janet Sebastian Cox (1938-2009) of Hanapepe broke the male barrier of the Hawaii National Guard on Kauai — specifically the 150th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron — by becoming the first female…