Year: 2013

The following post covers the 50th anniversary of the Hawaii Military Academy Officer Candidate School on November 4, 2012.  The video came up in a lunch time discussion and several recommended it be posted. 298th Regional Training Institute (RTI) and…

COL Bryan Suntheimer, currently the Hawai‘i Army National Guard Chief of Staff, will become the J4 Mobilization Assistant at United States Pacific Command. He will replace BG Martha N. Wong, a HIARNG member currently serving in the J4 position. There…

Miles Tamura and Clifford Kobashigawa attend Col Reynold Hioki’s pinning ceremony. They were Traditional Guardmembers who served with the 201st Combat Communications Group. Miles retired several years ago from his job with the Navy. Cliff just retired from Kamehameha Schools after…

Colonel Joseph Garnett, the 201st Combat Communications Group commander, has left for the Air National Guard Liaison to the Air National Guard Liaison to the Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO), General Michael Basla.

James “Jimmy” Toledo, 72, of Mililani, a Board of Water Supply maintenance supervisor and a Hawai‘i Army National Guard veteran, passed away on May 5, 2013. He was born in Wahiawā. He is survived by brothers Frank B. Jr. and…

LTC Neal Mitsuyoshi just left for a yearlong fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This is program administered by Army War College located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Roxanne Bruhn pinned on her senior master sergeant stripes in a ceremony…

The Rev. Walter Milton Harris, 74, of ‘Ewa Beach, a Hawai‘i Diocese Episcopal priest, Navy family advocacy educator, chaplain with the Air Force and Hawai‘i Air National Guard, and Army medevac helicopter pilot, passed away on June 3, 2013. He was…

Congratulations to the following Hawai‘i National Guard officers who received Federal Recognition for their promotions to colonel. LTC Roy Macaraeg The former 487th Field Artillery commander is attending Army War College and will graduate in July. His next assignment will…

CMSgt Denise Jelinski-Hall gets a wall dedicated at the National Woman's Memorial Museum. The Chief is close to the end of her tour as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. During her Air Force…

Sancho Espina, 87, of Honolulu, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard retiree and an Army veteran, passed away on May 21, 2013. He was born on Kaua‘i. He is survived by wife Mary A., sons John and Robert, daughters Carolyn Stanton…