{"id":54768,"date":"2021-04-09T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=54768"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:27:47","slug":"check-six-1956-hang-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2021\/04\/09\/check-six-1956-hang-10th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six – 1956: HANG 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hawaii Air National Guard photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the HANG 25 \u2013 History of the Hawaii Air National Guard booklet:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HANGmen celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a luau and dance on November 3, 1956. Governor\u00a0Samuel W. King<\/strong>\u00a0addressed the aloha-shirted Hawaii Air Guardsmen, Maj\u00a0Walter F. Judd<\/strong>, master of ceremonies presented the 199th (Fighter Squadron) ably assisted by nine others who recounted anecdotes: Capt\u00a0Tyler M. Haar<\/strong>, MSgts\u00a0William K. Enoka<\/strong>,\u00a0Sun Yau Goo<\/strong>,\u00a0Carl S.B. Kang<\/strong>, TSgt\u00a0Vernon S. DeLima<\/strong>,\u00a0Lawrence Partika<\/strong>, and A1C\u00a0Arthur Lee<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The classic anecdote of the evening was made by MSgt Kang, \u201c1955 Summer Camp was a bad year for us crapshooters, the \u201cole man\u201d really cracked down on us \u2013 so, the younger men took up bowling and us older men took up beer drinking for recreation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st Sgt\u00a0Theodore D. Hussey<\/strong>\u00a0called the November 4, 1946 roll, and 10 charter HANGmem answered \u201chere\u201d and front and center to receive lei from the first lady for the squadron,\u00a0Mrs.<\/strong>\u00a0James R. Ashford<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 1st Lts (now Majs)\u00a0George R. Duncan<\/strong>,\u00a0Walter F. Judd<\/strong>,\u00a0Russell L. Smith<\/strong>, 2nd Lts (now Capts)\u00a0Letwell P.A. Duvauchelle<\/strong>,\u00a0George I. Harris<\/strong>, SSgt (now CWO)\u00a0Joseph L. Barnett<\/strong>, SSgt\u00a0Harold Martinez<\/strong>, Sgts (now MSgts)\u00a0Robert D.W. Choi<\/strong>,\u00a0Richard S.O. Lee<\/strong>, and Sgt (now TSgt)\u00a0Frederick H. Rittmeister<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The photograph shows the 199th Fighter Squadron flag and some F-86 Sabre models in a display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was 1956 and the unit was still organized as a fighter squadron. It was a carryover from World War II. The 154th Fighter Group received Federal recognition in December 1, 1960 with the 199 FS becoming one of the units within the Group. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the HANG 25 \u2013 History of the Hawaii Air National Guard booklet: HANGmen celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a luau and dance on November 3, 1956. Governor\u00a0Samuel W. King\u00a0addressed the aloha-shirted Hawaii Air Guardsmen, Maj\u00a0Walter F. Judd, master of ceremonies presented the 199th (Fighter Squadron) ably assisted by nine others who recounted anecdotes: Capt\u00a0Tyler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":54769,"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":"3956,18114,47914,23063,1566,59492","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12400,12386],"tags":[126,217,1160,1981,2156,4340,4539,4556,4707,4916,4953,5973,6248,6730,6818,9765,9832,10019,10858,11165,11453,11824,12018,12213],"class_list":["post-54768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1950s","category-check-six","tag-154th-fighter-group-154-fg","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-arthur-lee","tag-carl-s-b-kang","tag-check-six","tag-frederick-h-rittmeister","tag-george-i-harris","tag-george-r-duncan","tag-governor-samuel-w-king","tag-harold-martinez","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-james-r-ashford","tag-joseph-l-barnett","tag-lawrence-partika","tag-letwell-p-a-duvauchelle","tag-richard-s-o-lee","tag-robert-d-w-bobby-choi","tag-russell-l-smith","tag-sun-yau-goo","tag-theodore-d-hussey","tag-tyler-m-haar","tag-vernon-s-delima","tag-walter-papa-judd","tag-william-k-enoka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54768","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=54768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}