1980’s

Special thanks to Stephen Lum for shared this photograph from COL Donald Oura’s photo albums. Colonel Oura was the 29th Infantry Brigade commander in t he 1980s. Captain Joseph Chaves and LTC Edward Correa in a mission briefing during the...

Tom Kato and David Snakenberg at the 1985 Gun Firing Camp at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. Operations ran out of tents. The 154th Composite Group flew F-4C Phantoms at the time. Tom worked on the flightline who worked on F-102A...

L-R: Gerald "FANG" Aoki, Clarence "Mert" Agena, Richard Miyamoto, George "Jungle George" Sheraton, Galen Yoshimoto The 1986 National Guard Association of the United States conference was held in Nashville, Tennessee.  It was a three-day conference running from September 30 - October...

Aaron Pollick continues to do an outstanding job on his Hawaii Army National Guard - Historical Facebook page. On his Facebook page, Kehau Jardine posted this photograph with these comments: "IMUA" - "IKAIKA" - that was 292d Supply and Service Company...

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.

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 Island about the 80’s because of the helmet style.  I’m...

Contributing Editor Stephen Lum submitted this old photograph for posting. This photograph is from 1985 and show a very young 2LT Gary Littlefield. If you know the names of the other soldiers in the photograph, email Retiree News so we...

In early March, a photograph published showed The Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1 Battalion-299 Infantry (Maui) went to Fort Lewis, Washington for training in September 1983. A Hawai‘i Army National Guard retiree emailed in and identified the soldier next to...

This photo shows aircrew from the 199th Fighter Squadron discussing tactics. From the left: Darryl “Yobo” Chung, Dale Tengan, Richard Tsuchiya, Clyde Torigoe. Judging from the F-4C Phantom models used and the individual ranks, this photo was probably taken in...

F-4 crews at Williams AFB This 1984 photograph shows maintenance personnel in a deployed location.  Two other photographs during this deployment were posted earlier in the e-newsletter version on Retiree News. Does anyone remember the deployment location where this photo was...