{"id":38378,"date":"2019-05-01T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=38378"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:02:32","slug":"check-six-new-hiang-pilot-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2019\/05\/01\/check-six-new-hiang-pilot-25-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; Early 1990s: New HIANG Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1.jpg?w=497\" alt=\"photo\" class=\"wp-image-38379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1.jpg 957w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2019\/04\/23473046_10210928508354191_3886733772266539174_n-1-768x770.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Hawaii Air National Guard Photograph | click to enlarge<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This undated photograph shows a young <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Adrian &#8220;Kila&#8221; Kinimaka<\/span><\/strong>, who flew with the 199th Fighter Squadron. It looks like the photograph was taken at the Hawaii Air National Guard flightline. Kila is wearing a Tactical Air Command or Air Combat Command patch so the date should be in the early 1990s, shortly after he returned from training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3639O-9Wm\">An earlier Retiree News post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Historical note:&nbsp;Tactical Air Command transitioned into the Air Combat Command effective June 1, 1992.<\/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>This undated photograph shows a young Adrian &#8220;Kila&#8221; Kinimaka, who flew with the 199th Fighter Squadron. It looks like the photograph was taken at the Hawaii Air National Guard flightline. Kila is wearing a Tactical Air Command or Air Combat Command patch so the date should be in the early 1990s, shortly after he returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":38379,"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":"43075,15592,5685,9071,19345,36800","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12396,12386],"tags":[168,217,527,614,2156,7363,10960],"class_list":["post-38378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","category-check-six","tag-154th-wing-154-wg","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-adrian-kila-kinimaka","tag-air-combat-command-acc","tag-check-six","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-f-15-eagle","tag-tactical-air-command-tac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38378","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=38378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85694,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38378\/revisions\/85694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}