Garro (Rojo) Keeaumoku Johnson ended his long battle with cancer on October 29, 2006. In his second round with cancer, he refused to undergo further chemotherapy treatments. He passed away peacefully ...
Read More Check Six – 2006: Ro Johnson
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Remembering Dennis Dalen, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who died 24 years ago today during the Hurricane Iniki recovery mission. Dennis was a member of the 297th Air Traffic ...
Read More Check Six: Remembering Dennis
These are photographs from Lt Col Robert “BD” Darrow Fini Flight in July 1996. Click on photographs to enlarge. Fini Flight – A pilot’s last flight in the aircraft before he/she leaves a ...
Read More Check Six – 1996: Robert “BD” Darrow’s Fini Flight
John Chun emailed these two photographs. Both deal with Consolidated Tool Kits (CKTs) in the Engine Shop. John estimates the photographs are circa 2001.
Special thanks to Stephen Lum who shared this photo of then Captain Joseph Chaves. We think it taken in the 1980s at one of the Exercise Team Spirit in Korea.
This photograph shows Lt Col Valentine Siefermann presenting Lt Stephen Oka his controller certification at the 150th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (150 ACWS) luau. The photograph is dated 1965. Siefermann became ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Siefermann and Oka
Steve Lum shared this photograph with Retiree News, but had no information about the date and location. Aaron Pollick offered these comments, “the aviation photograph looks like Kauai or Big ...
Read More Check Six: Army Aviation
A Retiree News reader sent in this YouTube link of the Hawaii Air National Guard and the arrival of the F-102 Delta Daggers in 1961. Shows future generals Bob Maguire ...
Read More Check Six – 1961: HIANG receives F-102s
From Peter Young’s Images of Old Hawaii website Hawaii Air National Guard retirees remember references to Fort Kamehameha, an area near the 154th Wing complex. The United States Army owned the ...
Read More Check Six: Fort Kamehameha
This post originally appeared as an article in the March 3, 2011 issue of Retiree News e-newsletter. Remember the HIANG C-7 Caribou? The Hawai‘i Air National Guard has had a ...
Read More Check Six – 1975: C-7 Caribou
