{"id":25531,"date":"2017-06-13T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=25531"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:14:26","slug":"check-six-field-maintenance-over-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2017\/06\/13\/check-six-field-maintenance-over-30-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 1984: Field Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/06\/311.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/06\/311.jpg?w=497\" alt=\"Group photo\" class=\"wp-image-25532\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>L-R: MSgt Kenneth Morimoto, CMSgt David Pontes and 1st Lt David Snakenberg (click on photograph to enlarge)<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retiree News asked <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Dave Snakenberg<\/strong><\/span> if he could share more information about the date and the event. Snake\u2019s reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>About 1984. I was commissioned in December 1981 and looks like I am a 1st Lt. so about 1984. Do not know the specific event, except it was held in 3400 hangar area.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Ken Morimoto<\/strong><\/span> ran the Egress Shop before moving to other supervisory positions. He retired as a chief master sergeant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Dave Pontes<\/strong><\/span> was the NCOIC of Field Maintenance. After retiring, he moved to Gig Harbor, Washington. The Chief passed in the 90s. The Chief\u2019s son, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Wayne Pontes<\/strong><\/span>, served on the fighter flightline and later in the Public Affairs Office. He moved on to other opportunities after many years with Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Snake<\/strong><\/span> was the OIC of the Field Maintenance Branch and served there several years as a Traditional Guardmember. Back then, he taught at Damien Memorial High School before later starting a career with the 154th Wing. Snake last assignment was the Vice Commander of the 154th Wing and retired as a colonel.<\/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>Retiree News asked Dave Snakenberg if he could share more information about the date and the event. Snake\u2019s reply: About 1984. I was commissioned in December 1981 and looks like I am a 1st Lt. so about 1984. Do not know the specific event, except it was held in 3400 hangar area. Ken Morimoto ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":25532,"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":"35035,34818,34504,28846,23989,32403","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12397,12386],"tags":[125,2156,2903,2933,4037,6477],"class_list":["post-25531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","category-check-six","tag-154th-consolidated-maintenance-squadron-154-camron","tag-check-six","tag-david-snake-snakenberg","tag-david-pontes","tag-field-maintenance-branch","tag-kenneth-morimoto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531","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=25531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85657,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions\/85657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}