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Honoring a forgotten chapter of WWII history. The 1st Squadron, 299th Cavalry Regiment, Hawaiʻi Army National Guard held a memorial unveiling ceremony remembering the Soldiers lost aboard the USAT Royal T. Frank, torpedoed on Jan. 28, 1942, while returning home from training....

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 – for some reason – we started to list call signs...

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 roots are woven deeply in the history of Hawai‘i from...

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 now. The call sign tradition is celebrated by aviation communities...

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page click to enlarge Telling a story in the Hawaiian culture is an art and takes on many forms. Among those are music and hula, which runs deep in the culture of our...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph

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 of an organization. The official USAF statement of lineage forms...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows a F-4 in the radar dock. During the F-102 Delta Dagger and F-4 Phantom eras, there was radar docks on the makua side of the old fighter hanger (Building 3400). During...

Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt) is the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force, just above Senior Master Sergeant, and is a senior non-commissioned officer rank. The official term is "Chief Master Sergeant"...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows Lt. Peter “Spreadmo” Weidener, who was a member of the 199th Fighter Squadron during the F-15 Eagle era. Now a lieutenant colonel, he returned earlier this year as a member to the...