{"id":67591,"date":"2022-06-21T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=67591"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T22:58:10","slug":"check-six-early-2000s-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/06\/21\/check-six-early-2000s-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; Early 2000s: Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1603\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Check Six - Early 2000s: Old Friends\" class=\"wp-image-67593\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/img_1138-1-1-2048x1282.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><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 undated photograph show (L-R) <strong>Bruce Minato<\/strong>, <strong>Fred Higa<\/strong> and <strong>Wayne &#8220;Wildman&#8221; Wakeman<\/strong>. The photograph was probably taken a retirement ceremony in the dining facility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce served his entire technician career in the maintenance complex for many years before his retirement. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred did maintenance analysis for the 154th Maintenance Group. Some of his innovative analysis of data became standards across other maintenance analysis functions. In addition, Fred wrote the &#8220;CAMS News &amp; Views&#8221; column in the K\u016bk\u0101\u2018ilimoku for many years. The column shared news of the happenings with the maintenance complex.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wildman flew during the Phantom and Eagle eras with the 199th Fighter Squadron. You&#8217;d have to ask him how he got his call sign.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>These three are representative of the Guardmembers who made the Hawai\u2018i Air National Guard great over the years.<\/em><\/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 undated photograph show (L-R) Bruce Minato, Fred Higa and Wayne &#8220;Wildman&#8221; Wakeman. The photograph was probably taken a retirement ceremony in the dining facility. Bruce served his entire technician career in the maintenance complex for many years before his retirement. Fred did maintenance analysis for the 154th Maintenance Group. Some of his innovative analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":67593,"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":"45487,34769,59005,29176,8909,42464","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12395,12386],"tags":[134,217,1771,1897,2156,4329,7363,7366,11970],"class_list":["post-67591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-check-six","tag-154th-maintenance-group-154-mxg","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-bruce-minato","tag-cams-news-views","tag-check-six","tag-fred-higa","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-f-15-eagle","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4-phantom-ii","tag-wayne-wildman-wakeman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591","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=67591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85540,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591\/revisions\/85540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}