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Shade from the corrugated metal roofs that protects both maintainers and the F-22 fighter aircraft flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron and the Air Force’s 19th ...
Read More With the F-22’s Future Uncertain, Hickam Airmen Reflect

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page 16 years ago, Hickam became the first United States Air Force base outside the continental U.S. to permanently host the C-17? One interesting thing ...
Read More Check Six – 2006: First C-17 Globemaster III arrives at Hickam

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page U.S. Staff delegation members of the House Appropriations Committee recently spent face to face time with Team Hickam’s Total Force Airmen to ...
Read More Congressional Staffers Visit Hickam AFB

F-22 Raptor Night Operations

Posted on Oct 20, 2021 in 2020's, History

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page The day shift might be wrapping up, but the Alert Mission never sleeps! Standby maintenance teams and aircrews remain at their posts ...
Read More F-22 Raptor Night Operations

Sentry Aloha 21 Continues

Posted on Aug 18, 2021 in 2020's, History

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Pressing onwards to our second week of Sentry Aloha 21! There’s a reason why we’ve been hosting iterations of this exercise for ...
Read More Sentry Aloha 21 Continues

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Total Force Initiative (TFI) Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam executed ground refueling between two separate and contrasting airframes February 25. Airmen ...
Read More Hickam aircraft maintenance units execute C-17 to F-22 refueling

Off the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Facebook page Congratulations to Staff Sergeant Ross Lazaro of the Hawaii Army National Guard, winner of the, your Holiday Bill on us Military Star Card Sweepstakes!! 🎈🎉💲🎉🎈 ...
Read More Army Guardmember Wins Exchange Prize

Bob Sigall is a Star-Advertiser writer, whose weekly column, Rearview Mirror, looks back at Hawaii’s past. He also shares additional material in biweekly emails. In the middle of the current ...
Read More Webmaster Comments 21.02.21

This undated photograph shows Gilbert Cera, who served many years in the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in the parachute shop. Gil retired from his civil service position with Joint Base Pearl ...
Read More Check Six- Mid-1970s: Gilbert Cera

Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page If you know what a ‘Thrust Conversion Actuator’ is, and how to fix it on-the-spot, then you just might be a C-17 ...
Read More Maintaining C-17 Globemaster III Engines