{"id":66998,"date":"2022-05-31T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=66998"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:59:51","slug":"check-six-two-command-sergeant-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/05\/31\/check-six-two-command-sergeant-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six: Two Command Sergeant Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2300\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1.png\" alt=\"Check Six: Two Command Sergeant Majors\" class=\"wp-image-66999\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1.png 2300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1-1536x1002.png 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/05\/john-vern-1-2048x1336.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2300px) 100vw, 2300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Retiree News photograph<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photograph was taken on August 22, 2006 and shows Command Sergeant Majors <strong>John &#8220;JJ&#8221; Yakushiji<\/strong> and <strong>Vern Nakasone<\/strong>. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JJ served full-time with the aviation function at Wheeler Army Air Field and served as the Brigade Command Sergeant Major before retiring. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vern was the Senior Enlisted Leader for the Hawaii National Guard at Fort Ruger for many years. After retirement, he returned to his civilian position at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\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 was taken on August 22, 2006 and shows Command Sergeant Majors John &#8220;JJ&#8221; Yakushiji and Vern Nakasone. JJ served full-time with the aviation function at Wheeler Army Air Field and served as the Brigade Command Sergeant Major before retiring. Vern was the Senior Enlisted Leader for the Hawaii National Guard at Fort Ruger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":66999,"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":"23063,56582,60894,36433,58680,49593","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12395,12386],"tags":[2156,2496,12412,4944,4959,5006,6125,7231,10257,11820],"class_list":["post-66998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-check-six","tag-check-six","tag-command-sergeant-major-csm","tag-fort-ruger","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-army-national-guard-hiarng","tag-hawaii-national-guard-hing","tag-john-jj-yakushiji","tag-marine-corps-base-hawaii-mcbh","tag-senior-enlisted-leader","tag-vern-nakasone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998","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=66998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85471,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998\/revisions\/85471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}