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 ...
Read More Check Six: 1983 Tiger Balm – 34 years ago

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 ...
Read More Check Six: 1985 Gun Firing – 32 years ago

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 2, 1986 at the Opryland ...
Read More Check Six: 1986 NGAUS Conference – 31 years ago

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” ...
Read More Check Six: 292d Supply and Service Company

Check Six: CPT Joseph Chaves

Posted on May 20, 2016 in 1980's, Check Six

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.

Check Six: Army Aviation

Posted on Feb 16, 2016 in 1980's, Check Six

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

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 ...
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Update on photograph

Posted on Jul 22, 2014 in 1980's, History

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 ...
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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 ...
Read More Check Six: Fighter Tactics Training

Check Six: Old Photograph

Posted on Jun 27, 2014 in 1980's, Check Six

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 ...
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