{"id":28610,"date":"2017-10-13T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=28610"},"modified":"2025-05-30T19:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:34:51","slug":"check-six-mick-melick-promotion-21-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2017\/10\/13\/check-six-mick-melick-promotion-21-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 1996: Mick Melick Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/10\/img491-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/10\/img491-copy.jpg?w=497\" alt=\"group photo\" class=\"wp-image-28609\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1996, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael &#8220;Mick&#8221; Melich<\/span><\/strong> was promoted to colonel after he became the commander of the 154th Maintenance Group. This photograph was taken at his promotion luncheon. Yvette Miraflor provided the following comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From left to right, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sylvian Goodspeed<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Elizebeth \u201cLiz\u201d Karosi<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">c<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">h<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mick<\/span><\/strong>, his daughter <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Keri<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Yvette Miraflor<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ellen Laguatan<\/span><\/strong> and I forgot the last girls name, she was a part-timer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sylvian was a civilian that worked in Supply, Liz worked for Lt Col Melvin Asai in Mobility, and Ellen worked in Maintenance Analysis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Special Thanks to Yvette Miraflor for helping identify some of the people in the photograph.<\/em><\/span><\/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>In 1996, Michael &#8220;Mick&#8221; Melich was promoted to colonel after he became the commander of the 154th Maintenance Group. This photograph was taken at his promotion luncheon. Yvette Miraflor provided the following comments: From left to right, Sylvian Goodspeed, Elizebeth \u201cLiz\u201d Karosich, Mick, his daughter Keri, Yvette Miraflor, Ellen Laguatan and I forgot the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":28609,"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":"54899,3824,67024,10669,36380,27635","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12396,12386],"tags":[134,168,2156,3650,3651,7611,10940,12350],"class_list":["post-28610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","category-check-six","tag-154th-maintenance-group-154-mxg","tag-154th-wing-154-wg","tag-check-six","tag-elizebeth-liz-karosich","tag-ellen-laguatan","tag-mick-melick","tag-sylvian-goodspeed","tag-yvette-miraflor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610","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=28610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85783,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions\/85783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}