The "Did you know....?" page will highlight trivia about the 216th and the men and women who served. As always, "What goes TDY, stays TDY" will be considered.
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Did you know the 216th had a small part in the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff”? At least one of our old line trucks was used in the background during filming at Hamilton AFB, CA.
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Did you know that the Control Tower cab that’s sitting on the west side of the hangar used to be on the top of the hangar?
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Did you know the Hanger at the Hayward ANGS was built in 1942 and named the ‘Hayward Army Air Field’?
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Did you know that Chief Master Sergeant Janine Ciochon (Garcia) was the first female Chief in the Engineering Installation Squadron (EIS) Community, Air National Guard (ANG) and active duty? Click on the icon below to read more about this historic event.
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Did you know that the earliest know location, that 216th predecessors performed worked at, was the Santa Rosa Naval Station which is now the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, California?
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Did you know that the following two items had special significance at the 216th?
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Did you know 216th troops were under a sniper attack at Moody AFB GA? Or were they? While working on a Runway Visual Range (RVR) tower the Security Police ran the troops off. It was thought that there was a sniper on the base. It turns out that there was a gunnery rage about two miles from the base. An F-16 accidentally fired a 22mm round into the base and nailed a civilian Civil Engineering employee…..and the guy lived.
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