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State of Hawai’i Department of Labor & Industrial Relations and the American Job Center Hawaii will be hosting an In-Person Federal Hiring Event that is open to the public.

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 – ...
Read More Check Six: Aviator Call Signs Updated

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 ...
Read More Hawaii National Guard Unit Emblems: 199th Fighter Squadron

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 ...
Read More Hawaii National Guard Unit Emblems: 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

The 199th Fighter Squadron received Federal recognition on November 4, 1946. Since the start of flight operations, six members have died in flying operations. These accidents occurred in the first ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Members Killed in Flight Operations

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 ...
Read More Check Six: Colonel Walter Foulke “Papa” Judd

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 ...
Read More Aviator Call Signs: The History & Naming Rituals

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 ...
Read More Check Six: HANG Ohana over the Years

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