This undated photographs shows Stanford Lum. He served in the hydraulic shop for many years when it was part of the Field Maintenance Branch. Another of the great maintenance personnel ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: Stanford Lum
History
The National Guard Bureau extended Federal Recognition to the Hawaii Air National Guard on November 4, 1946. Th initial operating location was Bellows AFB in Waimanalo. The 199th Fighter Squadron ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1940s: Red Ball
This undated photograph shows a flightline mechanic guiding a McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom returning from a training flight. The old civil engineering building (now gone) and Battery Selfridge are in ...
Read More Check Six – late 1970s: Mission Return
This undated photograph shows Kenneth “Kenny” Camara. Kenny’s career in the maintenance complex began in the 1950s. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew North American F-86 Sabres. Kenny was a mainstay ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: Kenny Camara
Imagine this: Mom takes a trip to the commissary with her seven children. All of a sudden, Mom demands that everyone “Fall in,” and immediately a straight lines forms, shortest ...
Read More Check Six – 2016: 2LT Christine Kaiulu Burley
The 199th Fighter Squadron began flying McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantoms in 1976. Coming out of conversion status, one of their first deployments was to Anderson AFB, Guam. This undated photograph ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1970s: Phantoms to Guam
From the Garden Island website In February 1973, Janet Sebastian Cox (1938-2009) of Hanapepe broke the male barrier of the Hawaii National Guard on Kauai — specifically the 150th Aircraft ...
Read More Check Six – 1973: Janet Cox & the 150 AC&WS
The Hawai‘i State Department of Defense once held Awards and Retirement luncheons twice a year. These luncheons recognized retiring Federal and state employees. Current employees who achieved 10, 20, 30 ...
Read More Check Six – 2006: Old Friends at the Retirement Luncheon
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Another great day flying F-22 Raptors in Hawaii.
The Hawai‘i State Department of Defense once held Awards and Retirement luncheons twice a year. These luncheons recognized retiring Federal and state employees. Current employees who achieved 10, 20, 30 ...
Read More Check Six – 2011: Old Friends at the Retirement Luncheon
