From the Dr. George PC website This map shows the track of Iwa and location during the period of its highest intensity near Kauai. Click on photograph to enlarge. Iwa ...
Read More Check Six: Hurricane Iwa – 36 years ago
1980’s
This photograph show then-SSgt Alan Yoneshige of the then-154th USAF Clinic. It was taken during the unit’s 1982 deployment to Clark AB, Philippines. The other Airmen in the photograph are ...
Read More Check Six: SSgt Yoneshige – 36 years ago
This undated photograph shows then-Capt Gary “Pork” Peters during a family day doing a cockpit orientation of a F-4C Phantom. Pork joined the 199th Fighter Squadron out of U.S. Marine ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1980s: Gary Peters
This undated photograph was taken at the alert pad. It shows L-R: Harold “Shaka” Schatz, Les O’Brian, Jamie Bury, and Richard Dove in front a F-4C Phantom. After the F-4 era, ...
Read More Check Six – Early 1980s: F-4 Aircrews at the Alert Pad
This undated photograph shows Nan Proctor and then-Donna Hara working on a CPT word processor. Word processors were the cutting edge replacing electric and some old manual typewriters. Nan and ...
Read More Check Six: Working on the CPT Word Processor – 30+ years ago
This undated photograph shows the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron training office. MSgt Ignacio Gabriel, Jr. was the NCOIC and Carole Fukuda – now Carole Yoshikane – was then a Traditional ...
Read More Check Six: Maintenance Training Staff – 30+ years ago
This undated photograph shows Melvyn Taira who served in the Avionics area for many years. Based on the uniform and his master sergeant rank, this photograph was taken in the ...
Read More Check Six: Avionics Maintenance NCO – 35+ years ago
An F-4C Phantom assigned to the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron, is shown here taxiing at Hickam AFB sometime in the early 1980s. This particular aircraft was christened ...
Read More Aircraft named after Hawaii water bird
This photograph shows Buenaventura “Benny” Pabingwit and Gary Hirata in a off duty dinner at a local restaurant in Songtan, the Korean area outside Osan AB. Benny was a fulltime technician ...
Read More Check Six: Team Spirit 84 – 34 years ago
In the early 1980s, Moses Akana joined the Hawaii Air National Guard after serving several years in the Air Force. This photograph show him in front of a radar screen controlling aircraft. ...
Read More Check Six: Moses Akana – 33+ years ago
