1980’s

Asked Ronnie Miraflor to comment on this old photograph. This was in the mid 80s during an F4 deployment to Guam.  Myself, Howard Nonaka and Gary Doane was replacing a valve on the top of the wing of the F4....

This photograph shown Craig Harimoto, conducting an operational check on a F-4 Phantom II. Craig was part of the Egress Shop, and later became the shop chief. Later in his career, he moved to Quality Control section. He retired as...

Roland Shim, 202d Combat Communications Flight (later the 293d Combat Communications Squadron), types a message on a teletype unit. Existing facilities were tasked for support of the Team Spirit 80 exercise. In addition to manning field communications sites, deployed Guardmembers...

Many types of mobile radio equipment were deployed to multiple locations throughout Korea to support the Air Force communications mission. This AN/TSC-60(V2) mobile van was located a Osan AB as one link in the communications chain. The AN/TSC-60 series of...

In the photograph, Lt. Col. Melvin Morris and CMSgt Clement Oshiro are on the Osan AB flightline. They observed the off loading of a Flying Tiger charter aircraft. Lt. Col. Morris was the Deputy Commander of the 201st Combat Communications...

In the 1986, the Hawaii Air National Guard purchased CPT word processors for the unit support functions. The CPT system used two 8-inch floppy diskette drives and were used for several years before the first computers – Zenith Z-100s –...

Dennis Fujii sent in this photograph of members of the 117th Public Affairs Detachment, Hawaii Army National Guard. The photograph was taken at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) during the 1986 Annual Training. (From Left): MAJ Gregg K. Kakesako (Commander), SGT...

Mahalo to Craig Harimoto, who emailed this photograph of the Egress Shop in 1980. The photograph was taken in shop when it was located in Battery Selfridge. Craig later became the shop chief after Ken Morimoto moved to the the...

Stanley Osserman recently shared some old documents from his personal files with Retiree News. One of those documents was this 1984 telephone roster from the Headquarters, Hawaii Air National Guard. Check closely for some familiar names. Among those listed are...

This photograph features a young Tamahlani Noh - then Tamahlani Nakamoto. Like many Hawaii Air National Guard officers she was commissioned after serving several years as an enlisted member. The photograph was taken in the CBPO (Consolidated Base Personnel Office...