On Monday, Erik Wong started as the A3T at Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Erik fills the position previously held for many years by Jim Townsend, and more recently Tim ...
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History
Remembering Dennis Dalen, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who died 22 years ago today during the Hurricane Iniki recovery mission. He was 46 and died during the storm cleanup ...
Read More Check Six: Remembering Dennis
Admissions Day is a state holiday that celebrates the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation welcoming Hawai‘i as the 50th state of the union. He unveils the new fifty-star ...
Read More Check Six – 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th State
CMSgt Raquel Ramos submits reports and photographs of the activities of Hawai‘i National Guard members assigned to the National Guard Bureau and other locations in the Washington DC area. This ...
Read More Team 808: Taste of Hawaii in DC
Sixty eight years ago, on August 3, 1946, an Executive Order of Governor Ingram M. Stainback established the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Four Army Air Force units were accepted: The ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG’s Beginning
The first 199th Fighter (Interceptor) Squadron patch was designed by First Lieutenant Wade H. McVay, Jr. The patch presented the mythical war god, ” Kūkā‘ilimoku,” a symbol of fearlessness, valor ...
Read More Check Six: 199th Fighter Squadron Patch
This is the second of a series of articles by contributing editor Stephen Lum entitled My Back Pages. Steve retired from the Hawai‘i Army National Guard and continues to work in the State ...
Read More My Back Pages: BG Wilhelm Arthur Andersen
SFC Sherly Ludaes has assumed the responsibility to help our Hawai‘i Army National Guard retirees. She replaces SFC Jin Pak who will retire. SFC Ludaes office and contact information: Joint ...
Read More HIARNG Retirement Counselor change
In early March, a photograph published showed The Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1 Battalion-299 Infantry (Maui) went to Fort Lewis, Washington for training in September 1983. A Hawai‘i Army National ...
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Henry Hasuiki emailed this photograph he received from a retired member of the 162d Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard. It shows John “Saigon” Lee at some kind of training, ...
Read More Check Six: John “Saigon” Lee
