{"id":86857,"date":"2026-02-10T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/?p=86857"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:03:36","slug":"check-six-olympians-in-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2026\/02\/10\/check-six-olympians-in-the-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six: Olympians in the Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know the Hawai\u02bbi&#8217;s National Guard has had Olympians in it\u2019s ranks? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"965\" data-id=\"86858\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-1024x965.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-768x724.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-500x471.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68-800x754.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2026\/02\/Moolelo-Kahiko-Helu-Ekahi-Tradition-of-Excellence-40th-Anniversary-Hawaii-Air-National-Guard-68.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Master Sgt. John H. Beaumont competed in the 25-meter pistol event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and finished in seventh place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capt. Thomas A. Haine was a member of the All-America Volleyball team 18 times; He won a silver medal at the Pan American Games in 1963 and a gold medal in 1967. He was elected captain of the 1968 Olympic Team, and though the team placed sixth, it had the distinction of being the only American squad to beat a Russian team in Olympic competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-medium-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/blog\/hawai%ca%bbi-guardsmen-who-were-olympians\/\">Learn more <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the Hawai\u02bbi&#8217;s National Guard has had Olympians in it\u2019s ranks? Master Sgt. John H. Beaumont competed in the 25-meter pistol event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and finished in seventh place. Capt. Thomas A. Haine was a member of the All-America Volleyball team 18 times; He won a silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":86858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"15780,66048,84863,84912,43708,35494","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-check-six"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857","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=86857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86859,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857\/revisions\/86859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}