In an earlier Retiree News post – Aviator Call Signs: The History & Naming Rituals – we linked an Department of Defense article about aviator call signs. The night before posting – ...
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Blazon: On an Air Force golden yellow Hawaiian shield, oval and pointed at the extremities, and bordered black, a stylized Hawaiian idol black, eyes, nose, mouth and markings voided of ...
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Blazon: On a light blue disc edged with a narrow black border, a blue horizontal band of stylized water surmounted by an inverted yellow triangle voided of the field, overall ...
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Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i National Guard historian. If you like Hawaiiana, and more specifically National Guard of Hawai‘i history, you definitely should know about Colonel Walter F. “Papa” Judd. His family ...
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Blazon: On a blue disc within a narrow gold border a red Hawaiian idol (Lono) eyes and mouth blue, all outlined and detailed gold holding a gold calabash, inside blue, ...
Read More Hawaii National Guard Unit Emblems: 154th Supply Squadron
From the Department of Defense website If you’ve been a fully trained military pilot for more than a few months, chances are that you’ve scored yourself a call sign by ...
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Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Telling a story in the Hawaiian culture is an art and takes on many forms. Among those are music and hula, which ...
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Lineage. Air Force Instruction 84-105, “The lineages of permanent organizations are continuous. Neither inactivation nor disbandment terminates their lineage or heraldry.” Lineage entails tracing the organizational actions affecting the history ...
Read More Check Six: Lineage of the 199th Fighter Squadron / 154th Wing
464th Fighter Squadron, SE Approved by the Army Air Forces for the 464th Fighter Squadron, SE, March 6, 1945. AGO Hawaii GO, February 8, 1947, announced redesignation of the 464th ...
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