The following items were in the “In My Opinion” column in the April 1995 issue of the 154th Support Group Training Bulletin. Ranks and unit designations are as they were ...
Read More Check Six – April 1995: 154th Support Group Training Bulletin
Check Six
The following items were in the “In My Opinion” column in the March 1995 issue of the 154th Support Group Training Bulletin. Ranks and unit designations are as they were ...
Read More Check Six – March 1995: 154th Support Group Training Bulletin
The following items were in the “In My Opinion” column in the January 1996 issue of the 154th Support Group Training Bulletin. Ranks and unit designations are as they were ...
Read More Check Six – January 1996: 154th Support Group Training Bulletin
From the This Day in Aviation website 27 December 1935: When an eruption of the 13,679-foot (4,169-meter) shield volcano Mauna Loa, that had been ongoing since late November, threatened the town of ...
Read More Check Six: December 27, 1935
Peter Ching, a retired 169th Air Defense Squadron member provided the background information about the photograph and its significance. Thanks Peter! Members of the then 169th Aircraft Control & Warning ...
Read More Check Six: Top Scope 1996
Remembering Dennis Dalen, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who died 22 years ago today during the Hurricane Iniki recovery mission. He was 46 and died during the storm cleanup ...
Read More Check Six: Remembering Dennis
Admissions Day is a state holiday that celebrates the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation welcoming Hawai‘i as the 50th state of the union. He unveils the new fifty-star ...
Read More Check Six – 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th State
Sixty eight years ago, on August 3, 1946, an Executive Order of Governor Ingram M. Stainback established the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Four Army Air Force units were accepted: The ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG’s Beginning
The first 199th Fighter (Interceptor) Squadron patch was designed by First Lieutenant Wade H. McVay, Jr. The patch presented the mythical war god, ” Kūkā‘ilimoku,” a symbol of fearlessness, valor ...
Read More Check Six: 199th Fighter Squadron Patch
Henry Hasuiki emailed this photograph he received from a retired member of the 162d Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard. It shows John “Saigon” Lee at some kind of training, ...
Read More Check Six: John “Saigon” Lee
