History

This undated photograph shows a 199th Fighter Squadron pilot under going ejection seat training. The 199th joined the jet age in 1954 when it finally retired its aging F-47N Thunderbolts for ...
Read More Check Six: Ejection Seat Training – 60+ years ago

This photograph show Keith Kunichika, and Kenneth “Eagle” Wicks next to a F-4C Phantom II. Judging from the mountain silhouette in the background, this photograph was taken at the then ...
Read More Check Six: Training at Kaneohe MCAS – 30+ years ago

This undated photograph was taken at one of the then 154th Group’s Open House/Family Days. As a reference, the Group flew F-15A/B Eagle from 1987-2009. But it was probably taken in the ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1980s: Eagle Ice Co.

This undated photograph shows some members of the 154th Wing’s Electric Shop. Shown are (L-R): David Helmic, August Bernardino, Robin Ito, Kevin Shiraki, and Herbert Takeuchi, the shop chief. Retiree News ...
Read More Check Six: Electric Shop – 30+ years ago

Colonel James S. Shigekane became the Vice Commander of the 154th Wing on October 1, 2018.  He replaced Colonel Kurt Shigeta who retired. Colonel Shigekane received his commission from the United ...
Read More James S. Shigekane, Wing Vice Commander

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page When the Kilauea volcano erupted on Hawaii’s Big Island, members of the 297th Air Traffic Control Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, were just ...
Read More Just home from Iraq, air traffic controllers answer call from state

Keith Kunichika was commissioned in the Hawaii Air National Guard in 1977. Keith served in the then 154th Composite Group in the maintenance complex and later as the budget officer and ...
Read More Check Six – 1980s: Keith Kunichika

The following was copied from the Wikipedia for history: The 19th Cavalry was constituted on 24 October 1967 in the Hawaii Army National Guard as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental ...
Read More Check Six: E Troop, 19th Cavalry

From the Honolulu Star Bulletin archive website Members of the Hawaii Army National Guard’s 29th Support Battalion show off ukuleles and songbooks they received from Anita Coyoli-Cullen and Shirley Orlando ...
Read More Check Six: 29th Support Battalion Deployed – 13 years ago

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Soldiers from the 230th Vertical Engineer Company, Hawaii Army National Guard, team up with local organizations to construct micro-shelters in Pahoa, Hawaii. To ...
Read More Check Six – 2018: HIARNG Engineers Teaming to Construct Mico-shelters