In an April 28, 2014 ceremony at the Hawai‘i State Capitol, Brigadier General Michael “Inch” Compton was promoted to major general. Earlier in January, he started his tour as the ANG Assistant to the ...
Read More Check Six – 2014: Michael Compton Receives Second Star
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Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page When Airmen go above and beyond their normal call of duty, it’s hard to not take notice. Master Sgt. Dwayne Yoshioka, Staff ...
Read More Check Six – 2019: HIANG Maintenance Airmen Coined
The Hawaii Air National Guard flew a Douglas C-54 Skymaster from October 2, 1965 to 1972. It replaced the VC-47 Gooney Bird that the HIANG flew for 14 years. The Douglas ...
Read More Check Six: The Spirit of Aloha
In November, Retiree News featured a post about an Academy of Military Science (AMS) graduation in 2003. It was a special event because the commissioning class included seven Hawaii Air National ...
Read More Check Six: Three HIANG Commanders Dressed Up
This photograph was taken at the 2014 Birthday Ball. It shows (L-R): Levi Hookano, David Lopina, Gerald Takase, Winston Ling, Kurt Sherwood and his wife, Mayumi. These officers served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG Corps).
This undated photograph show aircrew and mechanics reacting to a klazton sounding a scramble. The 199th Fighter Squadron has stood 24/7 alert since 0001 on October 23, 1958. Earlier Retiree ...
Read More Check Six: Alert Scramble
From the dvids website Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall, the new senior enlisted leader assigned to the Office of the Chief, National Guard Bureau, is seen at the ...
Read More Check Six – 2009: New NGB Senior Enlisted Leader Named
On April 18, 2003, the Air National Guard’s Academy of Military Science graduated 114 lieutenants in AMS Class 0-2003-3. The class had 28 women and 86 men – 91 ANG ...
Read More Check Six: AMS Graduation – 16 years ago
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser recently posted this photograph as part of their “Back in the Day” daily series of old photographs. The photograph was originally published on November 17, 1964 and ...
Read More Check Six – 1964: The Royal Guard in 1964
Special thanks to Garrett Yokoi for sending in this photograph with these comments. In the photo left to right are TSgt (Ret – 291 CCS) Christian Rosehill, MSgt (154 FSS) Shirlene Cardenas, me, and ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Members Sighted
