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Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This photographs shows two 154th Composite Group F-4C Phantoms and an Air National Guard F-135A Stratotanker flying along the Waikiki shoreline.

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard photograph Col. Leah Botona Boling continues to make historic changes for Asian Americans Pacific Islanders (AAPI and female service members as she advances in her career. Originally as the...

From the Hawaiian Airlines Manao website Hawaiian Airlines photograph from this article When First Officer Russell Flynn and Flight Attendant Maydell Morgan learned Hawaiian Airlines would be helping relocate thousands of Afghans escaping the Taliban regime, they considered the mission...

Hawaii Air National Guard photographs 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 76-032. Maj. Kristoff “JAG” Sills and Lt....

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page U.S. Air Force photograph It takes world-class training to recover astronauts who are stranded in the middle of the ocean; and is why the 204th Airlift Squadron Pueos spent the past week...

Personal photographs used with permission 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 - of their time spent at...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph 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 year, nine aircraft had been...

Several younger Retiree News readers emailed inquiring about the location of the formation in our recent post, Check Six - Late 1950s: Event Formation.  U.S. Air Force photograph Shortly after receiving Federal Recognition in November 1946, the 199th Fighter Squadron and...

Hawaii Air National Guard phoptograph 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.

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph 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 (PACAF). Many PACAF assigned general...