Our Community Salutes Recognition Ceremony

Posted on May 19, 2015 in Awards
From left to right) Hawaii Air National Guard recruiters Tech. Sgt. Nolan Kaahanui, Tech. Sgt. Sharon Pasion, Tech Sgt. Todd Shak and Senior Master Sgt. Christophr Perez, pose for a group photo with Air National Guard enlistees (from left to right) Noel Antalan, Curtis Colipano Jr., Zane Toldeo and Trish Trafalgar, during the Inaugural Our Community Salutes (OCS) Recognition Ceremony at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial May 17, 2015, on Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Hawaii. OCS of Hawaii is a community based initiative to recognize and honor graduating high school seniors, who plan to join the Armed Forces after graduation. One hundred and twenty high school graduates were recognized during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)
From left to right) Hawaii Air National Guard recruiters Tech. Sgt. Nolan Kaahanui, Tech. Sgt. Sharon Pasion, Tech Sgt. Todd Shak and Senior Master Sgt. Christophr Perez, pose for a group photo with Air National Guard enlistees (from left to right) Noel Antalan, Curtis Colipano Jr., Zane Toldeo and Trish Trafalgar, during the Inaugural Our Community Salutes (OCS) Recognition Ceremony at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial May 17, 2015, on Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Hawaii. OCS of Hawaii is a community based initiative to recognize and honor graduating high school seniors, who plan to join the Armed Forces after graduation. One hundred and twenty high school graduates were recognized during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)

Military and local community members gathered to honor and recognize 120 military enlistees during the Inaugural Our Community Salutes (OCS) Recognition Ceremony at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial May 17, 2015.

OCS of Hawaii is a community based initiative to recognize and honor graduating high school seniors, who plan to join the Armed Forces after graduation. Service members, military veterans, community leaders, educators and businessmen and women used the ceremony as a venue to congratulate the enlistees and their families for stepping up to join the one percent of Americans who serve in uniform.

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