History

Brigadier General Bruce Oliveira, the Land Component Commander recently announced several Hawai‘i Army National Guard (HIARNG) senior command and key staff assignment changes. Colonel Bryan Suntheimer, the currently HIARNG Chief of Staff, will become the Mobility Assistant, Director, Logistics, Engineering...

Members of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard's 154th Wing last month returned home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from the Philippines after a week of exchange with Philippine airmen on air defense and command and control issues, according to a wing...

The photo above shows Stephen Lum putting up photos of all the Adjutants General who served in the State Department of Defense.  He researched all the biographical data of each TAG and a short bio appears with each photo.  The photos are...

This photo shows the then Specialist Christopher Ventura as part of the 25th Infantry Division Band.  The photo appeared in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on May 11, 1992, promoting the Joint Military Band concert.  Today, Sergeant First Class Ventura serves...

The Hawai‘i Air National Guard featured a Hawaiian musical group called the HANG Ohana.  The musicians and dancers evolved over the years, but they entertained at organization events to everyone’s enjoyment.   This photo shows an after work practice on the...

Ted Merrill was the 154th Wing’s historian in the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. He sent in a DVD with a lot of HIANG historical material. Here’s a photo from that DVD. From left to right: Byron Kim, Charles Bell, Dennis Taira and...

COL Bryan Suntheimer, currently the Hawai‘i Army National Guard Chief of Staff, will become the J4 Mobilization Assistant at United States Pacific Command. He will replace BG Martha N. Wong, a HIARNG member currently serving in the J4 position. There...

CMSgt Denise Jelinski-Hall gets a wall dedicated at the National Woman's Memorial Museum. The Chief is close to the end of her tour as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. During her Air Force...

In 1981, some members of the  Hawai‘i Army National Guard’s 292nd Supply & Service Company posed for a photo at the Pōhakuloa Training Area. Third from the left is then CPT Gervin Miyamoto and MAJ Emerick Kaneshi on the far right. Retiree...

This B-26C 'Invader' belonged to the 199th Fighter Squadron of the Hawai’i Air National Guard. The 199 FS flew these aircraft from 1946 until the early 1950s. Note the "TH" markings for 'Territory Of  Hawai’i" and the original 199 FS “Kūkā‘ilimoku”...