Ceremonies (Change of Commands, Retirements, Promotions, etc.)

Team 808 is a group of Hawaii Army and Air National Guard members assigned to the National Guard Bureau and other locations in the Washington DC area. CMSgt Raquel Ramos, retired ...
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From the @HawaiiTAG Twitter feed Photographs from Gregory “Woody” Woodrow’s pinning ceremony at Washington Place. Governor David Ige and his wife were present with Brigadier General Ryan Okahara presiding over ...
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Maj. Gen. Gary Hara spent most of that time with the Hawaii Guard, but since June of 2013 has been deputy commanding general for National Guard affairs at Fort Shafter, ...
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Lt. Col. Ryan Endo, Lt. Col. James Faumina, Lt. Col. Jamie Jicha and Lt. Col. Stuart Thompson from the 154th Medical Group pose together during their joint promotion and pinning ...
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Off Governor Ige’s Facebook page. On December 15, I had the honor of participating in a rare double-pinning ceremony for the Hawaii Army National Guard – including pinning of the first woman ...
Read More Colonels Hara and Vares-Lum Pinned to Brigadier General

State DOD Team, It’s a great day and month to be in the State Department of Defense, Hawaii National Guard. We just congratulated BG Kenneth Hara, and now we have ...
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click on photographs to enlarge Special thanks to Contributing Editor Stephen Lum who shared these photographs

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard received an honor from the Hawaii Army National Guard Monday. The Hawaii representative was promoted from captain to major at a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the ...
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Major Jeffrey Hickman forwarded this link to photographs taken the Hawai‘i Army National Guard change of command posted on Flickr. Jeff continues as the commander of the 117th Mobile Public ...
Read More Photographs from the HIARNG Change of Command

Maj Gen Arthur “Joe” Logan presided over a Change of Command for the Hawai‘i Army National Guard yesterday. Brig Gen Bruce Oliveira relinquished command to BG Keith Tamashiro at the ...
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