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From the National Guard magazine website Nicknames are popular in many endeavors, but nowhere are they more part of the culture than among fighter pilots. A pilot best known as Gump made a little history April 6 as four Vermont...

Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph This undated photograph show two Hawaii Air National Guard F-4 Phantoms at the alert facility. One is painted in the standard gray paint scheme while the other has the camouflage scheme. The new alert facility...

Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph This undated photograph show the 199th Fighter Squadron's F-4 Phantoms on the ramp at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station (as it was called back then).

This undated photograph shows Arnold Iaea at Officer Candidate School (OCS). Arnold went on to serve in many command and staff positions with the Hawaii Army National Guard. He retired as a colonel a few years ago. This photograph was...

Congratulations to CMS (Ret) Robert Inouye on his recent retirement from his State of Hawaii position! He sent in this old photograph of the 2-299th Infantry Battalion Fulltimers to Retiree News and provide these comments. 2-299th Inf Bn FulltimersDownload I came...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph show two NCOs from the then-Field Maintenance Branch of the 154th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron. Moses Felipe and Kenneth Camara both served as full-time technicians, and retired after long careers.

In the undated photograph, shows three members of the 201st Combat Communications Group (201 CCG). Lt Col Blaine Izuka, SSgt Patrick Bailon and Capt Michael Doolin review situation reports during a Makani Pahili  exercise. Blaine retired after serving the Director of Operations, 201...

Arthur Ishimoto served as the Adjutant General from January 1, 1982 to April 7, 1983. He enlisted in the Army in 1944 and served as an interrogator and translator in General Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence section during World War II.  After...

Thanks to Robert Inouye for submitting these photographs and these comments. Old timers might remember the old 2-299th Infantry Battalion S-4 Shop in Keaukaha Military Reservation (KMR) in Hilo. After the construction of the Armed Forces Reserve Center (AFRC) in...

This photograph was posted on February 16, asking if anyone knew what coastline Vern Nakasone emailed: “Looks like Pepeekeo on the Big Isle. Only the east side of the Big Isle has trees along the coastline as in the upper...