Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG)

Francis Yoichi Ryusaki, 78, of Waimea, Hawai‘i, a retired employee of the Hawai‘i County Department of Water Supply, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Hapuna Prince Beach Hotel, and a veteran of the Air Force and Hawai‘i Air National Guard, passed...

Col Duke Pirak will assume command of the 154th Operations Group on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, starting at 1600.  The Change of Command Ceremony will take place at the Missing Man Memorial (behind the Hickam O’Club). Col Pirak comes the...

Colonel Joseph Garnett, the 201st Combat Communications Group commander, has left for the Air National Guard Liaison to the Air National Guard Liaison to the Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO), General Michael Basla.

LTC Neal Mitsuyoshi just left for a yearlong fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This is program administered by Army War College located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Roxanne Bruhn pinned on her senior master sergeant stripes in a ceremony...

The Rev. Walter Milton Harris, 74, of ‘Ewa Beach, a Hawai‘i Diocese Episcopal priest, Navy family advocacy educator, chaplain with the Air Force and Hawai‘i Air National Guard, and Army medevac helicopter pilot, passed away on June 3, 2013. He was...

Congratulations to the following Hawai‘i National Guard officers who received Federal Recognition for their promotions to colonel. LTC Roy Macaraeg The former 487th Field Artillery commander is attending Army War College and will graduate in July. His next assignment will...

CMSgt Denise Jelinski-Hall gets a wall dedicated at the National Woman's Memorial Museum. The Chief is close to the end of her tour as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. During her Air Force...

Sancho Espina, 87, of Honolulu, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard retiree and an Army veteran, passed away on May 21, 2013. He was born on Kaua‘i. He is survived by wife Mary A., sons John and Robert, daughters Carolyn Stanton...

Allen LeRoy Vierra Sr., 70, of Pukalani, Maui, a retired Hawai‘i Air National Guard mechanic, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born on O‘ahu. He is survived by wife Sherry J., son Allen L. Jr., daughter Shelley, sister...

Gordon Kireto, 71, of Līhu‘e, a retired radar maintenance supervisor with Hawai’i Air National Guard, 154th Air Control Squadron, passed away on May 23, 2013. He was born in ‘Ele‘ele, Kaua‘i. He is survived by wife Lucille, daughters Cathy Kagawa...