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The Twilight Tattoo

111th Army Band members are silhoulleted in Waikiki as they participate in the Twilight Tattoo.

On Approach...

Four Ch-47 Chinooks from Company B, 1-171st Aviation Regiment prepare for a National Cemetery of the Pacific flyover.

Practice Makes Perfect

SPC Gabby Balicoco, aircraft electrician with the 777th Aviation Support Battalion, Hawaii Army National Guard, attaches a new loading ramp lowering switch to the control panel of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at the Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas. The unit was at CCAD for the most advanced level of hands-on training available in their field.

UH-60M, "M" is for Magnificient

The Hawaii Army National Guard's Blackhawk unit, Co C, 1-207th Aviation Regiment, inducted and blessed the new M model UH-60s at their Hilo Armory in March of 2010. Guard members were joined by the Hawaii Congressional Delegation Senators Dan Inouye and Dan Akaka, and Thomas Nicolette from Sikorsky Aircraft.

On the prowl...

OH-58 Kiowas from Detachment 2, Company B, 3rd Batallion, 140th Aviation assist Guam National Guard Counter Drug Operations and various law enforcement agencies during Operation Green Harvest. The mission is to eradicate and suppress the growing of cannabis on domestic soil cutting the life line of criminal enterprises whom profit from its sale and distribution.