{"id":13774,"date":"2015-09-22T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.wordpress.com\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:46:42","slug":"check-six-199-fighter-squadron-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2015\/09\/22\/check-six-199-fighter-squadron-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six: 199 Fighter Squadron &#8211; 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/09\/personnel52-e1442942622128-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s. &nbsp;The F-102 Delta Daggers flow by the squadron&nbsp;had &#8220;Hawaii Air Guard&#8221; markings until the late 60s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two recognizable faces are <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tai &#8220;Mynah&#8221; Hong<\/span><\/strong>, second from the left in the front row; and <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Edward &#8220;Rick&#8221; Richardson<\/strong><\/span>, sixth from the right in the back row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone recognize any of the pilots in the photograph?\u00a0 Email your comments to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">retireenews@gmail.com.\u00a0<\/span> There will be an update when more individuals are identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s. &nbsp;The F-102 Delta Daggers flow by the squadron&nbsp;had &#8220;Hawaii Air Guard&#8221; markings until the late 60s. Two recognizable faces are Tai &#8220;Mynah&#8221; Hong, second from the left in the front row; and Edward &#8220;Rick&#8221; Richardson, sixth from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":13773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"22806,17818,67837,23952,57947,17754","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12399,12386],"tags":[217,2156,2640],"class_list":["post-13774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","category-check-six","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-check-six","tag-convair-f-102-delta-dagger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87383,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions\/87383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}