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  • Hickam AFB going 'retro'; all vehicles to need base stickers again

    Leg warmers, parachute pants, mullets, Trapper Keepers and "Members Only" jackets are probably not back in style at Hickam Air Force Base, but base decals, DD Form 2220s, are all the rage.Hickam AFB drivers need to go "retro" in 2009 by sporting the vehicle stickers that have recently disappeared

  • Take care of our Air Force ohana through fund drive

    It's time again to show Team Hickam's "Commitment to Caring" for Airmen and their ohana. The annual Air Force Assistance Fund drive kicked off Monday, beginning a 6-week campaign of charitable giving through the easy method of payroll deduction. "With this year's economic challenges, it is even more

  • Hickam’s recycling program competes for a DoD award

    The Hickam AFB Recycling Program has won the General Thomas D. White Environmental award for the best Pollution Prevention program in the Air Force. It now goes on to the Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards. The General Thomas D. White award recognizes the efforts of installations and

  • Hickam Veteran reaches for the past, bids farewell to friends

    He ran a trembling hand over the words, "PFC Jack W. Fox." Then stood up, stepped back and rendered a long, slow salute. "He was a great soldier," said Henry Heim, Hickam Airfield attack survivor, as he glanced at the memorial with tears in his eyes. "I knew the other guys, every one of them, but he

  • AFAF – Taking care of our own

    I am most proud of the priority we place on taking care of our fellow Airmen and their families. A great example of taking care of our own is the Air Force Assistance Fund (AFAF) annual fundraising effort. Through the AFAF, the Air Force Village Foundation, Air Force Aid Society, LeMay Foundation

  • Hickam implements VPP

    In an effort to ensure base employees evaluate their practices and increase workplace safety, Hickam leadership implemented the Occupational Safety and Health Administration sponsored Voluntary Protection Program whose goal is to preserve combat power by decreasing workplace injuries or illnesses,

  • Think before operating Air Force owned vehicles

    All vehicle operators must have a valid AF Form 2293, USAF Motor Vehicle Operator Identification Card to operate government vehicles. This includes Non-Appropriated Funds, General Services Administration and other Air Force owned, leased and rented vehicles. This new requirements applies to both

  • Deployment dinner promotes unity among spouses of deployed service members.

    Nearly 100 deployed family members headed to Nelles Chapel to fellowship and enjoy dinner together during the monthly deployed spouses' dinner on Thursday, 26 Feb, at the Nelles Chapel Multipurpose Room. The purpose of this program is to encourage interaction among family members, as well as provide

  • Financial services transferring to South Dakota

    Hickam AFB has just migrated its 15th Comptroller Squadron Financial Services Office back-shop processing to the Air Force Financial Services Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. The FSO here will continue to serve customers' financial service needs and will offer an ever-increasing suite of

  • Purple Heart recipient remains vigilant on deployment

    A deployed Hickam AFB explosive ordnance disposal technician now carries a medal on his chest and metal inside his body after responding to an explosive rocket that was pointed to launch toward Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 3. Senior Airman Robert Wester, 15th Civil Engineer Squadron, was

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