Retiree News sent this photograph to Richard Hasting to confirm individuals and other information. The photograph shows (L-R) Les Obrien, Gerald Sada, Lawrence Cabrinha, Richard Hastings and Tai Hong. Les ...
Read More Check Six – 1977: F-4 Era Aircrews
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The Hawaii Army National Guard (HIARNG) has just been notified by the Department of Defense about upcoming unit deployments to the Central and European Command’s areas of operation starting in ...
Read More Hawaii Army National Guard Units Set to Deploy in 2018/2019
In the photograph (L-R) are John “Saigon” Lee, Kenneth Young, Wallace Asato, and George Oshiro. The photograph was taken after Colonel Lee presented his front office staff with Air Force ...
Read More Check Six: Old Friends – 40+ years ago
The photograph above shows the 154th Wing’s flightline around 1963/64. In the foreground is the old civil engineering building. The flightline building had not be built, and surrounding the tarmac, ...
Read More Check Six – 1963: F-102 Delta Daggar Flightline
Mobile telephone switchboards were used at several exercise locations in Korea. The switchboard operators stayed busy patching calls for both inter- and intra-base subscribers. In the photograph above is Vince ...
Read More Check Six: Team Spirit 80 – 37 years ago
The 111th Army Band – Hawaii Army National Guard – was an important part of the many open house events hosted by the 154th Composite Group. This photograph was probably ...
Read More Check Six: 111th Army Band – 35+ years ago
Back row (L-R): Douglas Hill, Joycelin Matsuda, Jacqueline Jakahi, Patrick Bailon, Teofilo “Fil” Mauricio, David “Mac” McCulloch.Front row: (L-R): Galen Nakahara, Jason Uota. These hard working personnel were the support ...
Read More Check Six: Old Friends – 30 years ago
Everyone in Hawaii has hiked the Koko Head Crater trail at least once. It is a steep trek that separates the fit and unfit. But what are the tracks going ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Koko Head AFS
With the onset of the Cold War and the threat of long-range Soviet nuclear bombers, the Guard wrote a new page in its long history of homeland defense. Beginning in ...
Read More Check Six: HIARNG Nike-Hercules Program
Since the mid-1980s, the 201st Combat Communications Group conducted a service dress uniform check. This annual check, usually during the December UTA, insured members had a complete uniform that fit ...
Read More Check Six – 1989: Old Friends
