During the Hawaii Army National Guard deployment to Afghanistan…. U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was fairly nonchalant about the U.S. military helicopter he was in having to make an emergency landing ...
Read More Check Six – 2008: HIARNG Rescue 3 Senators
History
The front gate at Hickam Air Force Base, now Hickam Field on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, has evolved from it’s beginning in 1935. The constant has been the Art Deco design front ...
Read More Check Six – 1962: Hickam AFB Front Gate
From the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page Disaster relief. Check! Search and rescue. Check! Become a honorary Mississippi State Deputy? Check! Patriot South 18 is underway in the Gulfport ...
Read More 154 SFS participates in Patriot South Exercises
This photograph shows Dillingham Field in the middle 1960s. After the then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group converted to F-102 Delta Daggars in 1960, some of the annual summer camp training was ...
Read More Check Six: Summer Camp in the 60s – 50+ years ago
The photograph above show a Hawaii Air National Guard F-4 Phantom II landing at Clark AB, Philippines in 1979. Col John “Saigon” Lee had recently took command of the then-154th ...
Read More Check Six: 1979 Clark AB Deployment – 39 years ago
When the 154th Fighter Interceptor Group (154 FIG) converted from the F-102A Delta Dagger to the F-4C Phantom II, the organization was redesignated the 154th Tactical Fighter Group (154 TFG). ...
Read More Check Six: Mobility Section – 30+ years ago
This photograph of the Logan brothers – Stephen, Mark and Arthur “Joe” – was taken at the 2010 National Guard Birthday Ball. The ball was held at the old Ihilani ...
Read More Check Six – 2010: Logan Brothers
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 ...
Read More Check Six: Aircraft Maintenance – 30+ years ago
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 ...
Read More Check Six – early 1980s: F-4 Maintenance
This photograph shows a member of the 201st Combat Communications Squadron (now the 291st Combat Communications Squadron) being fitted for an old-style gas mask. Gregory Navarro, with the clip board, ...
Read More Check Six: Gas Mask Fitting – 25+ years ago
