pūpūkahi
“Harmoniously United”
The pūpūkahi which means “United, or forward to obtain progress” was named by Mrs. Betty C. Hutchison a typist at the 159th Service Battalion. Her entry was selected from a list of 86 entries by a panel of judges including: Mr. John N. Butchart, vice director of Civil Defense; Colonel Walter F. Judd, executive officer of the HIANG; Colonel Paul K. Nakamura chief of staff of the HARNG, CSM Mitsuo Kobayashi of HARNG, CMSGT Clifford Chee of HIANG and Mrs. Jeanett Yoshimori.
Prior to the renaming in 1974 the newsletter was called The Hawaii Guardsmen. Since then the pūpūkahi has been run as a print publication until 2009. The pūpūkahi was restarted as the digital version we see today in 2015.
The 2020’s
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2015 January Pūpūkahi
Volume 45, No. 1
Printed versions of the pūpūkahi have been the “command information” newsletter for decades, however, it was suspended in 2009 due to budget cuts.