{"id":51527,"date":"2020-12-17T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=51527"},"modified":"2024-08-31T00:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:19:30","slug":"check-six-2009-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2020\/12\/17\/check-six-2009-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 2009: Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2020\/12\/img_0944.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51528\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Retiree News photograph<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photograph shows <strong>Samuel Wong<\/strong> and <strong>Brian Koga<\/strong> at a Hawaii National Guard luncheon in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam&#8217;s career began in supply but he later transferred to the support crew for the Hawaii Air National Guard&#8217;s support cargo aircraft. He is one of the charter members of the 204th Airlift Squadron and retired from the unit as a chief master sergeant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian&#8217;s career began in maintenance but he later became the Adjutant General&#8217;s driver. He retired after a long career. Unfortunately, he passed in 2014.<\/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 photograph shows Samuel Wong and Brian Koga at a Hawaii National Guard luncheon in 2009. Sam&#8217;s career began in supply but he later transferred to the support crew for the Hawaii Air National Guard&#8217;s support cargo aircraft. He is one of the charter members of the 204th Airlift Squadron and retired from the unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":51528,"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":"49735,54225,62499,15202,24059,23758","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12395,12386],"tags":[282,518,1732,4953,4959,10105],"class_list":["post-51527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-check-six","tag-204th-airlift-squadron-204-as","tag-adjutant-general","tag-brian-koga","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-hawaii-army-national-guard-hiarng","tag-samuel-wong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51527","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=51527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}