{"id":10547,"date":"2015-03-31T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.wordpress.com\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T22:42:22","slug":"sentry-aloha-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2015\/03\/31\/sentry-aloha-2015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentry Aloha 2015-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) hosted its second large-scale \u201cSentry Aloha\u201d fighter exercise in 2015, which ended last&nbsp;week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this exercise, F-15 Eagles from Oregon and Florida participated. The Arizona Air National Guard (ANG) sent F-16 Falcons, A-10 Warthogs, C-130 Hercules transports, and a KC-135 Stratotanker. ANG KC-135 refueling tankers came from Iowa and Maine. U.S. Naval aviators flew variants of the F\/A-18 Hornet from California out of Kaneohe Marine Corps Base-Hawaii. There were a total of 45 aircraft and over 1000 servicemen from seven states participating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSentry Aloha\u201d exercises have been conducted by the HIANG several times per year, for decades. It has been growing in size and complexity following the HIANG\u2019s conversion in 2010 to the F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force\u2019s premier fighter aircraft. \u201cSentry Aloha\u201d is now the premier and primary training exercise to prepare multiple elements of the Air National Guard in the mission of our nation\u2019s defense and augmentation of active duty forces should these ANG units be called upon for conflict or war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I2sDPHSbLrI\">Sentry Aloha Fighter Exercise 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"Second%20Sentry%20Aloha%20of%202015%20wraps%20up\">Second Sentry Aloha of 2015 wraps up<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) hosted its second large-scale \u201cSentry Aloha\u201d fighter exercise in 2015, which ended last&nbsp;week. For this exercise, F-15 Eagles from Oregon and Florida participated. The Arizona Air National Guard (ANG) sent F-16 Falcons, A-10 Warthogs, C-130 Hercules transports, and a KC-135 Stratotanker. ANG KC-135 refueling tankers came from Iowa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":16653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1749,65779,57571,18794,33680,6906","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12394,15],"tags":[168,217,4953,5331,10278,11870],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2010s","category-history","tag-154th-wing-154-wg","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-hickam-afb-hawaii","tag-sentry-aloha","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}