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Off the Hawaii Adjutant General Facebook page On Monday, February 19, the 34th Annual Great Aloha Run started at 7:00 a.m. The official start was a cannon round fired by Aloha Battery, 1-487th Field Artillery. MG Arthur “Joe” Logan, the...

MSgt Gerald “Jerry” Verno, Sr. was an Air Force Advisor assigned to the 201st Combat Communications Group. Jerry served with the 201 CCG from 1984-1988. He retired in 1992 after a 23-year Air Force career. Jerry was one of the great...

Air Force Brig. Gen. I.G. Brown presents the NCO academy diploma to Tech. Sgt. G.M. Matsuguma, Class 69-D, from Hawaii during the graduation ceremony on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee. General Brown established the Air Guard’s...

The 199th Fighter Squadron flew F-102 Delta Daggars from 1960 through 1976. The 1973 photograph above shows a TF-102, the two seat trainer on the Hawaii Air National Guard ramp. The then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group had two trainer aircraft over...

In the Spring of 1977, the air traffic control elements of the 201st Combat Communications Group had a joint ATC training. Information with this photograph indicate it was held at Barking Sands. The airman in the photograph in unidentified -...

During the Hawaii Army National Guard deployment to Afghanistan.... U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was fairly nonchalant about the U.S. military helicopter he was in having to make an emergency landing in a snowstorm in the mountains of Afghanistan. Two Black...

This photograph shows Dillingham Field in the middle 1960s. After the then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group converted to F-102 Delta Daggars in 1960, some of the annual summer camp training was done at Dillingham Field. After hour activities included barbecues, music...

The photograph above show a Hawaii Air National Guard F-4 Phantom II landing at Clark AB, Philippines in 1979. Col John "Saigon" Lee had recently took command of the then-154th Composite Group (August 1, 1978). The Group deployed to Clark AB many...

When the 154th Fighter Interceptor Group (154 FIG) converted from the F-102A Delta Dagger to the F-4C Phantom II, the organization was redesignated the 154th Tactical Fighter Group (154 TFG). The Hawaii Air National Guard had flown “Deuces” since 1960...