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  • Hawaii Air National Guard Supports Arctic Exercise

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Hawaii Air National Guard demonstrated its airlift and controller capabilities in the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s arctic regional exercise in Alaska July 5-14.The Amalgam Dart exercise features U.S. Air Force aircraft that operate out of

  • Team Hickam delivers first formula flight

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HI -- 78,000 pounds of baby formula arrived in Indianapolis aboard a Hickam-based C-17 Globemaster III flying from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, completing the first flight of Operation Fly Formula.On May 19, President Joe Biden authorized Operation Fly Formula to bring

  • US, Australian aircrew swap seats for Global Dexterity

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – Australian accents were heard aboard U.S. aircraft, and vice versa, as international aviators participated in exercise Global Dexterity May 2-13.C-17 Globemaster III crewmembers from the Royal Australian and U.S. Air Forces shared aircraft as they carried out

  • First Stratotanker inducted into Air Force museum

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Aircrew members were on the brink of tears as they soared over Wright-Patterson Air Force Base April 30, knowing their most cherished aircraft would be the first KC-135 Stratotanker inducted into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.Down below, aviation

  • Nevada, Hawaii Air Guard conduct airpower exercise in Hawaii

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Airlift Wing helped execute the Hawaii Air National Guard’s Ho’oikaika 22-1 exercise March 3-6.The exercise tested the ability to mobilize and generate stealth airpower from three locations across the Hawaiian Islands and

  • Ho'oikaika strengthens total force integration

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Wing executed a first-of-its-kind exercise partnering with the Nevada Air National Guard, 15th Wing, and 354th Fighter Wing Airmen March 3-6.The exercise name, Ho’oikaika, originates from the Hawaiian language, meaning to

  • Hawaii ANG, Navy Reserve fighters enhance joint lethality

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Hawaiian skies cleared for Total Force Airmen and Navy Reserve exercise participants as they took part in a first-of-its-kind fighter exercise Jan. 18-26.While the Hawaii ANG routinely hosts large-scale combat exercises through its Sentry Aloha program,

  • National Guard's interstate cooperation enhances air defense

    WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii – In an operations center on the slopes of the Waianae mountain range, teams of Air National Guard Airmen monitor pods of brightly colored computer screens. From their perch, these Airmen have a virtual view of the airspace in and around the Hawaiian Islands as they

  • Artificial Intelligence-Based Battle Management Training Rolled Out

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The Western Air Defense Sector rolled out a cutting edge video game like training system, Aug. 26-27, 2021, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The system, called Battle Management Training NEXT (BMTN), provides command and control battle management operators

  • Hawaii Airmen train in California on disaster response

    CONCORD, Calif. – Medical specialists from the Hawaii Air National Guard's 154th Medical Group Detachment 1 took their expertise on the road to participate in a California disaster response exercise.Exercise Sentinel Response, held primarily on the grounds of a U.S. Navy military installation,