Contributing editor Stephen Lum provided this article and the photographs for this Retiree News post. Former Big Island armory was named after former 299th Infantry commander click on photographs to enlarge The ...
Read More My Back Pages: Armories named after Hawai‘i Guard leaders
History
This post originally appeared as an article in the March 3, 2011 issue of Retiree News e-newsletter. Remember the HIANG C-7 Caribou? The Hawai‘i Air National Guard has had a ...
Read More Check Six – 1975: C-7 Caribou
Colonel Walter F. Judd, a Hawaii Air National Guard member, organized the current Royal Guard. The unit made its first public appearance on November 16, 1963 at Iolani Palace to ...
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On November 4, 1946, the four original units of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard received Federal recognition. These units were: the 199th Fighter Squadron, 199th Utility Flight, Detachment C, 199th ...
Read More Check Six: Happy 69th Birthday to the HIANG
From the KITV website Members of Hawaii’s Air National Guard are participating in bombing targets of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Air ...
Read More Hawaii Air National Guard deploys to the Middle East
Many Hawai‘i National Guard retirees still refer to the Guard headquarters on Diamond Head Road as Fort Ruger. Many of the young Guard members do not know the history about the ...
Read More Check Six: Fort Ruger
From the This Day in Aviation website 24 October 1953: At Edwards Air Force Base, California, Convair’s Chief Test Pilot Richard Lowe Johnson took the first prototype YF-102 Delta Dagger, ...
Read More Check Six: October 24, 1953
This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s posted on September 22, 2015. A request to help identify the pilots was part ...
Read More Check Six: 199th Fighter Squadron update
From the Images of Old Hawaii website It was not until World War II that the technology of using rockets and missiles in warfare became firmly established. During the final ...
Read More Check Six: Missile-Age Minutemen
Two F-22 Raptor squadrons and two maintenance squadrons from Hawaii have joined forces to create a combined unit with more than 200 active-duty and Air National Guard airmen that has ...
Read More Hawaiian F-22s deploy downrange
