In an earlier Retiree News post – Aviator Call Signs: The History & Naming Rituals – we linked an Department of Defense article about aviator call signs. The night before posting – ...
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Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i National Guard historian. If you like Hawaiiana, and more specifically National Guard of Hawai‘i history, you definitely should know about Colonel Walter F. “Papa” Judd. His family ...
Read More Check Six: Colonel Walter Foulke “Papa” Judd
From the Department of Defense website If you’ve been a fully trained military pilot for more than a few months, chances are that you’ve scored yourself a call sign by ...
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Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Telling a story in the Hawaiian culture is an art and takes on many forms. Among those are music and hula, which ...
Read More Check Six: HANG Ohana over the Years
Lineage. Air Force Instruction 84-105, “The lineages of permanent organizations are continuous. Neither inactivation nor disbandment terminates their lineage or heraldry.” Lineage entails tracing the organizational actions affecting the history ...
Read More Check Six: Lineage of the 199th Fighter Squadron / 154th Wing
This undated photograph shows a F-4 in the radar dock. During the F-102 Delta Dagger and F-4 Phantom eras, there was radar docks on the makua side of the old ...
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Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt) is the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force, just above Senior Master Sergeant, and is a senior ...
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This undated photograph shows Lt. Peter “Spreadmo” Weidener, who was a member of the 199th Fighter Squadron during the F-15 Eagle era. Now a lieutenant colonel, he returned earlier this year ...
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Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard Blazon: Azure, a Hawaiian God proper holding in his dexter hand a ceremonial spear and in his sinister hand a lightning bolt or, on a ...
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