Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Col. Leah Botona Boling continues to make historic changes for Asian Americans Pacific Islanders (AAPI and female service members as she advances in ...
Read More First Female, Person of Color ANG Director of Chaplains Applies “Bayanihan” Concept to Strengthen Force
History
From the Hawaiian Airlines Manao website When First Officer Russell Flynn and Flight Attendant Maydell Morgan learned Hawaiian Airlines would be helping relocate thousands of Afghans escaping the Taliban regime, ...
Read More Bringing Aloha to Afghans: ‘They have nothing and they have been through so much.’
On September 22, 2009, the 154th Wing hosted ceremony to honor the last two McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles leaving the Hawai‘i Air National Guard flightline. They were aircraft 77-074 and ...
Read More Check Six – 2009: Last 2 F-15 Eagles Leave for the Boneyard
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page It takes world-class training to recover astronauts who are stranded in the middle of the ocean; and is why the 204th Airlift ...
Read More 204th Airlift Squadron Continues to Train for Contingency Rescue Operations
The alert facility – alert pad to many – is scheduled for demolition on September 22, 2021. 199th Fighter Squadron aircrews all have memories – good, bad and funny – ...
Read More Sunset of the Old Alert Pad
The 199th Fighter Squadron received their Federal Recognition on November 4, 1946. The first aircraft received was B-26C Marauder #433 on March 19, 1947. By the end of the fiscal ...
Read More Check Six – 1950: Jug Maintenance Crew
Several younger Retiree News readers emailed inquiring about the location of the formation in our recent post, Check Six – Late 1950s: Event Formation. Shortly after receiving Federal Recognition in November ...
Read More Check Six – 1946-1961: Area 65, Hickam AFB
This photographs shows Kenneth Iinuma, Dewey Dela Cruz and Thomas Hirao. The 154th Composite Group was flying F-4C Phantoms and munitions were an important part of the aircraft weapons system.
This photograph shows MSgt Wallace Takesane, Maj. Gen. Wess Chambers and Brig. Gen. Michael “Boss” Tice. Maj. Gen Chambers served as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Air Forces ...
Read More Check Six – 1986: Maj Gen Wess Chambers Flies with the 199th Fighter Squadron
This undated photograph shows ten Hawaii Air National Guard Deuces flying in formation. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew Convair F-102 Delta Daggers from 1960 to 1976. This photograph was taken ...
Read More Check Six – 1960: F-102s in Formation
