2014

Retiree News received it's 50,000 hit sometime yesterday. Mahalo to everyone who loged on to check the Retiree News website over the past 15 months.  Your support is appreciated.   The site started slowly but has improved as we progressed through...

Dennis Fred, who served both in the 154th Wing and the 201st Combat Communications Group recently signed up to “Follow the Blog”.  Retiree News asked for a personal update and Dennis sent the following. As for my update, hmmm, where...

Armed Forces News report on the beginning of the first 2014 Sentry Aloha exercise in Hawaii.  http://t.co/M75FxPj7a7

From the Adjutant General’s Facebook page. Colonel Keith Y. Tamashiro, Assistant Adjutant General and Director of the Joint Staff for the Hawaii National Guard, became Brigadier General Tamashiro yesterday at the State Capitol. See more http://t.co/FjCZBoZGMv

Elsie M. Coopman, 50, of Kapolei, a retired Air Force Reserve major and a manager with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, passed away on March 5, 2014.  She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Kevin, son Alec,...

Our Hawai‘i Army and Air National Guard members on statutory tours at the National Guard Bureau have formed Team 808.  Team 808 members get together periodically to keep the Aloha Spirit alive.  Their social events often include visiting Hawaii National...

Last week, your webmaster visited the Hawai‘i Air National Guard facilities at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.  If you haven’t visited the fighter compound area in the last year or so, the amount of construction going on will overwhelm you.  All...

Congratulations to Col Suzanne Vares-Lum, who recently started fulltime at the State Headquarters as the Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff.  Know she will do a great job! Ran into Kyle Kamikawa, HIANG retiree who served many years in the...

Teruo Oshiro, 86, of Kekaha, Kauai, a Hawai‘i Air National Guard retiree, passed away on February 2, 2014. He was born in Lawai, Kauai. He is survived by wife Florence Tomita; daughters Nancy Berson, Kerry Han and Lisa Tomita; brothers...

LeRoy Bow Chong Yuen, 78, of Honolulu, a Public Utilities Commission director and a Hawai‘i Army National Guard veteran, passed away on February 5, 2014. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Eva; son Marty; daughters Tammy...