A retiree emailed Retiree News this photograph of 199th Fighter Squadron pilots. In the photograph (L-R) are: Christopher “Frenchy” Faurot, Braden “Mongo” Sakai, Wade “Ninja” Oganeku, Adrian “Kila” Kinimaka, Jeffrey “Sumo” Namihara, ...
Read More Check Six: 199 FS Pilots – 25 years ago
1990’s
This photograph was taken in the early 1990s at a Hawaii Air National Guard training conference. In the photograph (L-R) are Kevin Takayanagi, unknown, Michael Won, Galen Nakahara, unknown, Lloyd Kagawa. Kevin ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Training Conference – 25+ years ago
This undated photograph show Lt Col Donald O’Day, commander of the then-169th Aircarft Control & Warning Squadron. The inscription on the cake is July 14, but the year can not ...
Read More Check Six: 169 AC&WS Celebration
Special thanks to Robert Inouye for sharing this photograph. Today is the 35th Annual Great Aloha Run. The GAR began in 1984 and the 1-487th Field Artillery has provided the ...
Read More Check Six – 1994: Great Aloha Run Starting Grew
This undated photograph shows a young Joseph Kim and Cliff Heen. In the background is a lei bedecked Mick Melich, but we are unsure if this was his pinning celebration ...
Read More Check Six: Two Young Officers – Many years ago
Dr. Patrick Nam, the then-154th Medical Squadron’s optometrist, retired after a long Air Force/Hawaii Air National Guard career. This photograph was taken at his retirement party on May 1, 1996. ...
Read More Check Six – 1996: Retirement Party
Robert Inouye sent this photograph to Retiree News. It was taken at Aloha Stadium at the end of the 1998 Great Aloha Run. Bob’s comments: Back Row (Left to Right) ...
Read More Check Six – 1998: Great Aloha Run
Open House events and static displays go hand in hand. These photographs show a F-4C Phantom II static display in the 1980s.
This photograph show then-SSgt Joseph Ramos and then-Maj Susan Higgins in the early 1990s. The Consolidated Base Personnel Office (CBPO) as it was known back then was located on the second ...
Read More Check Six: CPBO Staff – 25+ years ago
This undated photograph shows Carol Orr when she working in Finance. During her career, Carol worked in maintenance, finance, military personnel, communications. She currently works in civilian personnel at the ...
Read More Check Six: Carol Orr – 25+ years ago
