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As the run of Retiree News ends, the story of William “Bill” Crawford, a Army retiree who worked as a janitor at the Air Force Academy, needs to be retold. ...
Read More Lessons in Leadership from a Janitor

Blazon: On an Air Force golden yellow Hawaiian shield, oval and pointed at the extremities, and bordered black, a stylized Hawaiian idol black, eyes, nose, mouth and markings voided of ...
Read More Hawaii National Guard Unit Emblems: 199th Fighter Squadron

Retiree News Header Photographs

Posted on Jun 28, 2022 in history*

The home page header image on the Retiree News website features Hawai‘i National Guard photographs. Each time you log on, a different photograph appears. On some computers, if you click ...
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From the Task and Purpose website For civilians like myself, listening to service members can sometimes sound like hearing a different language. I’m not alone though: even members of different ...
Read More ‘Boomers, Moose, Enlisted Jesus’ and more Air Force lingo for the rest of us

Shade from the corrugated metal roofs that protects both maintainers and the F-22 fighter aircraft flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron and the Air Force’s 19th ...
Read More With the F-22’s Future Uncertain, Hickam Airmen Reflect

From the Air Force Magazine website F-22 Raptors assigned to the Hawaii Air National Guard 199th Fighter Squadron and the active duty 19th Fighter Squadron, are staged on the flightline ...
Read More Hawaiian Inter-Island ACE Helps PACAF Practice Close to Home

Blazon: On a light blue disc edged with a narrow black border, a blue horizontal band of stylized water surmounted by an inverted yellow triangle voided of the field, overall ...
Read More Hawaii National Guard Unit Emblems: 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Exercise Ho‘oikaika is all about strengthening and encouraging Airmen as they venture out to test their deployment readiness.  This most recent phase ...
Read More Exercise Ho‘oikaika tests deployment readiness

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard Key Ohana Spouse, Lucy M. Morris, is named the Air National Guard’s recipient of the 2021 Joan Orr ...
Read More 2021 Joan Orr Spouse Award: Lucy M. Morris

This photograph show two retired chief master sergeants from the 201st Combat Communications Group. In the photograph are Walter “Furu” Furuyama and Walter “Sugi” Sugiyama. Furu was the maintenance superintendent ...
Read More Two 201st Combat Communications Group Chiefs

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