{"id":28863,"date":"2017-10-31T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=28863"},"modified":"2024-10-11T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T21:59:51","slug":"check-six-old-friends-from-maintenance-35-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2017\/10\/31\/check-six-old-friends-from-maintenance-35-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 1980s: Old Friends from Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/10\/f4maintenance48.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2017\/10\/f4maintenance48.jpg?w=497\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28862\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photograph above shows <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lewis Kono<\/span><\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>James Suzuki<\/strong><\/span>, and <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Harold DeMello<\/span><\/strong> in front of a F-4C Phantom. It was probably taken in the early 1980s. All three were long time technicians&nbsp;who served in several positions in the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louie was featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/2017\/03\/30\/retiree-update-louie-kono\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Retiree Update earlier this year<\/span><\/a>. Jimmy passed away in February of this year. Harold is enjoying his retirement, he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/2015\/03\/20\/updates-old-friends-from-maintenance\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Retiree Update in 2015<\/span><\/a>.<\/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>The photograph above shows Lewis Kono, James Suzuki, and Harold DeMello in front of a F-4C Phantom. It was probably taken in the early 1980s. All three were long time technicians&nbsp;who served in several positions in the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Louie was featured in a Retiree Update earlier this year. Jimmy passed away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":28862,"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":"40924,32456,2576,31965,64342,415","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12397,12386],"tags":[125,4909,5952,6824,7366],"class_list":["post-28863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","category-check-six","tag-154th-consolidated-maintenance-squadron-154-camron","tag-harold-demello","tag-james-h-suzuki","tag-lewis-kono","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4-phantom-ii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863","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=28863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}