{"id":56818,"date":"2021-06-11T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=56818"},"modified":"2024-08-29T20:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:14:43","slug":"check-six-1960s-old-friends-from-hilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2021\/06\/11\/check-six-1960s-old-friends-from-hilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six \u2013 1960s: Old Friends from Hilo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This post first appeared June 17, 2010 issue of the e-newsletter Retiree News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a photo of the rock band called the Minutemen. They were from Hilo, Hawai\u2018i and played in the late 60s. They modeled themselves after Paul Revere and the Raiders<\/a>, a very popular band of the time. The name Minutemen foretold the future because two of the band members became long time members of the Hawai\u2018iNational Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Second from the left is Greg Navarro<\/strong>, a chief master sergeant who retired from the 291st Combat Communications Squadron, Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard, in Hilo. First on the right is Wayne Yoshioka<\/strong>, a lieutenant colonel who retired from the Hawai\u2018i Army National Guard. Wayne served in several positions including the State Department of Defense\u2019s public affairs officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This post first appeared June 17, 2010 issue of the e-newsletter Retiree News This is a photo of the rock band called the Minutemen. They were from Hilo, Hawai\u2018i and played in the late 60s. They modeled themselves after Paul Revere and the Raiders, a very popular band of the time. The name Minutemen foretold the future because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":56820,"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":"32016,65136,34344,41781,41769,32599","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12399,12386],"tags":[2156,4752,4953,4959,5381,7737,12078],"class_list":["post-56818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","category-check-six","tag-check-six","tag-gregory-navarro","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-hawaii-army-national-guard-hiarng","tag-hilo","tag-minutemen","tag-wayne-yoshioka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818","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=56818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}