{"id":2748,"date":"2013-07-15T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.wordpress.com\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:10:14","slug":"checking-out-old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2013\/07\/15\/checking-out-old-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking Out Old Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1-1536x993.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2013\/07\/f4c-radar-maintenance-1.jpg 1797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Ted Merrill\u00a0<\/b><\/span>was the 154<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Wing\u2019s historian in the Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard. He sent in a DVD with a lot of HIANG historical material. Here\u2019s a photo from that DVD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From left to right: <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Byron Kim<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Charles Bell<\/strong><\/span>, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Dennis Taira<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Maurice Kim<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Dennis Taira<\/b><\/span> provided the following comments about the photo. \u00a0<em>&#8220;My memory is in retirement mode.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember posing for this photo or who took it. The photo looks like the 1986 Red Flag deployment in June at <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nellis AFB<\/span><\/span>, Nevada. \u00a0My memory is coming back&#8230; \u00a0We got delayed coming home on the taxiway and got to spend another night at Vegas. (like we had any money left after 2 weeks)&#8221;<\/em><\/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>Ted Merrill\u00a0was the 154th\u00a0Wing\u2019s historian in the Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard. He sent in a DVD with a lot of HIANG historical material. Here\u2019s a photo from that DVD. From left to right: Byron Kim, Charles Bell, Dennis Taira and Maurice Kim Dennis Taira provided the following comments about the photo. \u00a0&#8220;My memory is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","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":"9079,31600,82880,34763,13653,3861","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12397,15],"tags":[168,4953],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","category-history","tag-154th-wing-154-wg","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87286,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/87286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}