{"id":43295,"date":"2020-01-06T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=43295"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:09:02","slug":"check-six-michael-compton-receives-second-star-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2020\/01\/06\/check-six-michael-compton-receives-second-star-5-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 2014: Michael Compton Receives Second Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2020\/01\/img_5971.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43296\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Retiree News photograph<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an April 28, 2014 ceremony at the&nbsp;Hawai\u2018i&nbsp;State Capitol, Brigadier General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/Leadership\/NGB-Senior-Leader-Management-Office\/bio-show\/2404\/\">Michael &#8220;Inch&#8221; Compton<\/a>&nbsp;was promoted to major general. Earlier in January, he started his tour as the ANG Assistant to the Commander, Pacific Air Forces.&nbsp;Hickam Air Force Base,&nbsp;Hawai\u2018i. He was transitioning from his tour as the&nbsp;Strategic Planning and Policy Mobilization Assistant, United States Pacific Command, Camp Smith,&nbsp;Hawai\u2018i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the photograph above, General Compton is talking to three of his four bosses. From the left are: Major General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/Leadership\/NGB-Senior-Leader-Management-Office\/bio-show\/420\/\">Darryll Wong<\/a>, the Adjutant General&nbsp;Hawai\u2019i,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/104764\/general-herbert-j-hawk-carlisle\/\">General Herbert \u201cHawk\u201d Carlisle<\/a>, Commander, Pacific Air Forces,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/airwaysmag.com\/airlines\/dunkerley-to-retire-as-hawaiian-airlines-ceo\/\">Mark Dunkerley<\/a>, president and chief executive officer, Hawaiian Airlines. His fourth boss,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Abercrombie\">Governor Neil Abercrombie<\/a>&nbsp;arrived shortly after and the ceremony began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Compton continues as a Boeing 717 captain with Hawaiian Airlines.<\/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 an April 28, 2014 ceremony at the&nbsp;Hawai\u2018i&nbsp;State Capitol, Brigadier General&nbsp;Michael &#8220;Inch&#8221; Compton&nbsp;was promoted to major general. Earlier in January, he started his tour as the ANG Assistant to the Commander, Pacific Air Forces.&nbsp;Hickam Air Force Base,&nbsp;Hawai\u2018i. He was transitioning from his tour as the&nbsp;Strategic Planning and Policy Mobilization Assistant, United States Pacific Command, Camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":43296,"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":"33867,6514,16956,52299,7520,1789","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12394,12386],"tags":[2882,5046,5264,7243,7563,8165,9208],"class_list":["post-43295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2010s","category-check-six","tag-darryll-wong","tag-hawaii-state-capitol","tag-herbert-hawk-carlisle","tag-mark-dunkerley","tag-michael-inch-compton","tag-neil-abercrombie","tag-promotion-ceremony"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295","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=43295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}