{"id":67732,"date":"2022-06-24T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=67732"},"modified":"2024-08-27T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:48:36","slug":"with-the-f-22s-future-uncertain-hickam-airmen-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/06\/24\/with-the-f-22s-future-uncertain-hickam-airmen-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"With the F-22\u2019s Future Uncertain, Hickam Airmen Reflect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67735\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img-8844-scaled-1-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em> Air Force Magazine photograph by Abraham Mahshie.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Shade from the corrugated metal roofs that protects both maintainers and the F-22 fighter aircraft flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s 199th Fighter Squadron and the Air Force\u2019s 19th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 8, 2022. Staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/Pages\/HomePage.aspx\"><em>From the Air Force Magazine website<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just behind the F-22 maintenance shop at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, a tall chain-link fence blocks access to a lengthy roadway leading to 13 sunshades, each standing more than 30 feet high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their corrugated metal roofs protect both maintainers and the F-22 fighter aircraft flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s 199th Fighter Squadron and the Air Force\u2019s 19th Fighter Squadron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a dozen years, thousands of Hawaiian maintainers have supported, and hundreds of pilots have flown, the fifth-generation aircraft from Hickam\u2019s strategic Pacific location. But in recent months, a tinge of sadness and uncertainty has radiated through the F-22 support team and pilots as Air Force leaders called for the retirement of 33 of the 186 F-22s in the fleet to make way for investments in next-generation fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/with-the-f-22-future-uncertain-hickam-airmen-reflect\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mil-ebb\">Continue reading<\/a><\/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>Shade from the corrugated metal roofs that protects both maintainers and the F-22 fighter aircraft flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s 199th Fighter Squadron and the Air Force\u2019s 19th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 8, 2022. Staff From the Air Force Magazine website Just behind the F-22 maintenance shop at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":67735,"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":"28236,12950,24887,13064,52420,39001","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12393,15],"tags":[168,217,224,719,4953,6197,6958],"class_list":["post-67732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020s","category-history","tag-154th-wing-154-wg","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-19th-fighter-squadron-19-fs","tag-aircraft-retirement","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-joint-base-pearl-harbor-hickam-hawaii","tag-lockheed-martin-f-22-raptor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67732","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=67732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}