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Check Six: Remembering Dennis

Posted on Sep 14, 2014 in 1990's, Check Six

Remembering Dennis Dalen, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who died 22 years ago today during the Hurricane Iniki recovery mission. He was 46 and died during the storm cleanup ...
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General Okahara Pinning Photographs

Posted on Sep 10, 2014 in Ceremonies (Change of Commands, Retirements, Promotions, etc.)

Photographs from Brig Gen Ryan Okahara‘s pinning ceremony are posted on the Adjutant General’s Facebook page.  Go to http://fb.me/4hTWK2Wr2  Photographs by Andrew Jackson More photographs by Tyler Kruse of the ...
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Check Six – 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th State

Posted on Aug 15, 2014 in 1950's, Check Six

Admissions Day is a state holiday that celebrates the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation welcoming Hawai‘i as the 50th state of the union. He unveils the new fifty-star ...
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Taps: Toshio Nagai

Posted on Aug 11, 2014 in Taps

Toshio Nagai, 75, of Kailua-Kona, an electronics technician for the U.S. Department of Defense, an employee for Avis Rent A Car, Jack Tours and KTA Super Stores Keauhou and a ...
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Team 808: Taste of Hawaii in DC

Posted on Aug 8, 2014 in 2010's, History

CMSgt Raquel Ramos submits reports and photographs of the activities of Hawai‘i National Guard members assigned to the National Guard Bureau and other locations in the Washington DC area. This ...
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Check Six: HIANG’s Beginning

Posted on Aug 3, 2014 in 1940's, Check Six

Sixty eight years ago, on August 3, 1946, an Executive Order of Governor Ingram M. Stainback established the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Four Army Air Force units were accepted: The ...
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Update: Lance Mizumoto

Posted on Jul 30, 2014 in Retiree Update

Lance Mizumoto served in the Hawai‘i Air National Guard as a personnel officer. After his promotion to captain, he left the Guard to pursue his banking career in the 1980s. ...
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Update: James Michael Doolin

Posted on Jul 24, 2014 in Retiree Update

James Michael Doolin is a success story, a reflection of his personal drive and determination in life. In the 1980s, he enlisted in the Hawai‘i Air National Guard after a ...
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Retirement Ceremonies 2014

Posted on Jul 21, 2014 in Ceremonies (Change of Commands, Retirements, Promotions, etc.)

Happy Retirement Glenda! There was a retirement party for MSgt Glenda Buis at the Willows Restaurant. She will officially retire on October 31, 2014, but her last working day will ...
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More Osserman Retirement Ceremony Photographs

Posted on Jul 19, 2014 in Ceremonies (Change of Commands, Retirements, Promotions, etc.)

Steve Berg, a retired Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who served with the then 169th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, provide these photographs to Retiree News. Special thanks to Steve ...
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