{"id":34091,"date":"2018-09-04T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=34091"},"modified":"2024-09-16T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:59:10","slug":"check-six-capt-john-lee-53-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2018\/09\/04\/check-six-capt-john-lee-53-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six: Capt John Lee &#8211; 53 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2015\/10\/199-fs-patch.jpg?w=89\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14238 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>From the September 1965 issue of Hawaii Guardsman<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the September 1965 issue of the <em>Hawaii Guardsman<\/em>, the-Capt <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">John \u201cSaigon\u201d Lee<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong>was named the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s Outstanding Interceptor Pilot. Saigon went on to serve in staff and leadership positions. He served as the then-154th Composite Group commander from August 1, 1978 to December 2, 1989.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2018\/09\/1965-outstanding-fighter-interceptor-pilot-article-2-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 1965 Outstanding Fighter Interceptor Pilot article 2.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1caa65be-3bb0-4a09-bcfe-0e43b901af34\" href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2018\/09\/1965-outstanding-fighter-interceptor-pilot-article-2-1.pdf\">1965 Outstanding Fighter Interceptor Pilot article 2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2018\/09\/1965-outstanding-fighter-interceptor-pilot-article-2-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1caa65be-3bb0-4a09-bcfe-0e43b901af34\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This Hawaii Air National Guard article came from a report filed by the 154th Wing historian, TSgt <strong>Theodore Merrill<\/strong>. This 2002 history report is on file with the Air Force Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. It is truly unfortunate that a few years later, the Air Force chose to eliminate historian billets at the wing level.<\/span><\/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>From the September 1965 issue of Hawaii Guardsman In the September 1965 issue of the Hawaii Guardsman, the-Capt John \u201cSaigon\u201d Lee&nbsp;was named the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s Outstanding Interceptor Pilot. Saigon went on to serve in staff and leadership positions. He served as the then-154th Composite Group commander from August 1, 1978 to December 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":67715,"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":"16441,54395,13352,39471,42010,41639","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12399,12386],"tags":[122,2156,6172,8653],"class_list":["post-34091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","category-check-six","tag-154th-composite-group-154-compg","tag-check-six","tag-john-s-w-saigon-lee","tag-outstanding-interceptor-pilot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091","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=34091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}