Retiree News discovered this photograph of Peter “Skipper” Pawling on the internet. We later found it on Skipper’s Facebook page. Skipper started a long career in the Hawaii Air National ...
Read More Check Six – 1972: Lt Peter “Skipper” Pawling
History
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page We’ve had a lot of excitement on our flight line today for exercise Sentry Aloha 19-2! The exercise kicked off with fighter ...
Read More Sentry Aloha 19-2
Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page It takes the combined effort of highly-skilled teams to maintain air superiority, and this is why more than 700 Airmen have gathered here ...
Read More Check Six -2019: Sentry Aloha 19-2
The 199th Fighter Squadron flew Republic P-47 Thunderbolts from the Hawaii Air National Guard’s inception in 1946 through the early 1950s. In 1954, the squadron entered the jet age when ...
Read More Check Six – 1954: 199 FS Enters the Jet Age
Thanks to Ford Chinen who sent in this photograph taken at William Mossman’s services. Standing (L to R): Edward Richardson, Daniel Stone, unknown, Ford Chinen, Melvin Ige, Robert Nagao, John “Saigon” Lee. Sitting: unknown, “Ace” Artiaga, Thomas Hirao. Ford went ...
Read More Check Six – 2019: HIANG Retirees
Pictured above are three members of the Hawaii Air National Guard’s Royal Guard. Left to right are Moses Timbal, Les Chambers, and Paul Kealoha. According to Randall Lum, another Royal Guard member and retiree, ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Royal Guard Members
This photograph showing Reynold Hioki and Miles Tamura working at the Pearl City Hongwanji bon dance. Both Reynold and Miles retired from the 201st Combat Communications Group. Reynold was running ...
Read More Check Six – 2019: 201 CCG Retirees
Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Combined Task Force 501 (CTF-501) 2019 brings together troops from Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh, and the Hawaii and Oregon National Guard’s to hone ...
Read More HIARNG Hosts CTF-501 2019
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) F-22s and maintainers from the 154th Wing conducted joint Forward Air Refueling Point (FARP) operations training with ...
Read More F-22s Conduct FARP Training at JBPHH
The National Guard Bureau announced that the 199th Fighter Squadron (SE) had won one of the 12 Spaatz trophies for outstanding capabilities in 1949, based on the exceptionally high Operational ...
Read More Check Six – 1949: 199 FS Awarded Spaatz Trophy
