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  • Hawaii, Arizona Air Guard Conduct Readiness Training

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Hawaii and Arizona Air National Guard members completed Home Station Readiness Training at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on April 7.The weeklong training prepared Airmen to stand up bare bases and build proficiency for contingency operations.Seventy members

  • Whitehead: “Guardsmen in the Pacific Crucial to Homeland Defense”

    HONOLULU – The National Guard’s senior enlisted leader visited with Hawaii National Guardsmen and command teams to observe operations in the Pacific Mar. 6-8.During the visit, Senior Enlisted Advisor Tony Whitehead, the SEA to the chief National Guard Bureau, toured Hawaii Guard facilities on Joint

  • F-22 Raptors Rearmed in Demonstration of ACE Capabilities

    PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii - Total-Force weapons specialists from 154th and 15th wings rearmed F-22 Raptors at the Pacific Missile Range Facility for the first time March 8-9, demonstrating their ACE capabilities.The maneuver operation was part of a larger Joint Base Readiness Exercise

  • Hawaii Air Guard Hosts U.S.-Australian Pacific Edge Exercise

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Wing hosted its largest exercise on Hickam Field Nov. 28-Dec. 9 during the second iteration of Pacific Edge.The Pacific Air Forces training event culminated in a variety of fourth- and fifth-generation fighter and

  • Hawaii Airmen, Marines Practice Chemical Warfare Response

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – Hawaii Air National Guard Airmen completed a chemical warfare and decontamination exercise Sept. 2 alongside joint and total force partners.More than 70 Airmen and Marines participated in the weeklong training event, Toxic Pineapple, collaborating to

  • Hawaii, California, Nevada Airmen practice water rescue

    LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Hawaii, California and Nevada National Guard members conducted water rescue training in Lake Tahoeʻs challenging landscape with the U.S. Coast Guard and FEMA partners.“This training is important because it is an opportunity to collaborate with our FEMA Region IX partners from

  • 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