{"id":52690,"date":"2021-01-29T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=52690"},"modified":"2024-08-30T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:09:14","slug":"check-six-1960-at-the-alert-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2021\/01\/29\/check-six-1960-at-the-alert-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 1960: At the Alert Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2021\/01\/964.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52691\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hawaii Air National Guard photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1960, the 199th Fighter Squadron was converting from North American F-86 Sabres to Convair F-102A Delta Daggers. This undated photograph shows the incoming and outgoing jets with two unidentified mechanics at the alert facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1960, the Air Force established the 154th Fighter-Interceptor Group and allotted it to Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard. The 154 FIG received Federal recognition and activated on December 1, 1960.<\/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 1960, the 199th Fighter Squadron was converting from North American F-86 Sabres to Convair F-102A Delta Daggers. This undated photograph shows the incoming and outgoing jets with two unidentified mechanics at the alert facility. In 1960, the Air Force established the 154th Fighter-Interceptor Group and allotted it to Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard. The 154 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":52691,"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":"53536,55443,33517,22720,66620,40423","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12399,12386],"tags":[127,217,710,788,2156,4009],"class_list":["post-52690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","category-check-six","tag-154th-fighter-interceptor-group-154-fig","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-aircraft-conversion","tag-alert-facility","tag-check-six","tag-federal-recognition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52690","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=52690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}