Tag: Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG)

This photograph shows then Lt Dave Snakenberg presenting a F-4C Phantom over Diamond Head picture to a Marine Corps officer. This was party at the end of the 1985 Gun Firing camp at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. Other HIANG…

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…

Your webmaster ran into Stanley Leong at the Navy Exchange. He served on the 154th Wing’s fighter flightline for many years before retiring. Stan said he splits time between his home on the Big Island and Honolulu. Great catching up…

Ronnie and Yvette at Lake Tahoe with their granddaughter in February Ronnie and Yvette Miraflor are both retirees from the 154th Wing maintenance complex. Both started when maintenance was the 154th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron. Ronnie worked in the fighter engine…

Retiree News is sad to report the passing of Ignacio “Gabe” Gabriel. Gabe passed on April 1, 2017, 40 days shy of his 90th birthday. Gabe served as the training manager for the 154th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron for many years.…

Services for Miles Aoki will be on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at Mililani Memorial Park – Mauka Chapel. Visitation begins at 5:30 pm, with services starting at 6:30 pm. Related: http://wp.me/p3639O-6eV Thanks to Dennis Takeshita for sharing this information with…

I went to visit Ken Wicks today.  It has been maybe over three years since I last saw him and Joyce.  Don't pay too much attention to our belt lines as we had just finished having some yummy number neung…

Beloved husband and father, 78, of Mililani, passed away at Pali Momi Hospital on 3/22/17. A Farrington High School graduate, he was Student Body President. A Peng Hui Fraternity member at U.H. Manoa, graduating in Civil Engineering, he obtained his…

Thanks to Billy Chang for emailing this photograph and comments to Retiree News. I ran into Sam Saffery yesterday at the Navy Exchange. Sam told me he is 80 years young and living in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is home temporarily…

Thanks to recent retiree Doug Awana for emailing the photograph and comments to Retiree News. Just FYI .... Ran into my very first supervisor in the HIANG (straight out of BMT & Tech School) SMSgt (ret) Louie Kono at HAFB…