June 2016

28 June 16  Aloha to the Retiree News Community. I am retiring after an amazing 34 year career in the Air Force and Hawaii Air National Guard.  Though I spent time throughout my career wondering how I would be on...

James Tay Nottage, June 10, 1947 - April 7, 2016. It is with deep regret and sadness to say that James Tay Nottage passed away peacefully in Eugene, Oregon of cancer. Jim was a Fifth Generation Kama'aina. Jim was born...

Special thanks to Rocky Bruhn, who wrote the following tribute on Aurora Lee. It is with deepest sorrow that I notify members of the Hawaii National Guard of SMSgt Aurora Lee’s passing on Mother’s Day, May 8, 2016. She was a...

Antone “Sonny” Gabriel, 68, of Mililani, an Air Force veteran and an aircraft technician, died on June 7, 2016. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Joyce; sons Antone Jr., Kory and Kyle Gabriel, and Jerry Oliveira...

Taken from a Hawaii National Guard Media Release Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii- More than 50 members of the Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) and three KC-135 Strotankers, based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPH-H) have returned home following a...

Congratulations to BG Suzanne Vares Lum who was one of three Hawaii soldiers named to the Army ROTC National Hall of Fame.  She will be inducted at ceremony at Fort Knox, Kentucky today.  The ceremony marks the training’ program’s 100th...

From the Hawaii Adjutant General Facebook Photographs from the 2016 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Memorial Ceremony.  The ceremony was held on Friday, May 20, 2016 at Building 29 at Kalaeloa. The brigade annually honors it's Fallen Heroes, soldiers who...

Retiree sightings at the commissary Lane Martin, formerly of the 201st Combat Communications Group, continues to serve as a Traditional Guardmember in a First Sergeant billet. He also serves as the State Senior Vice Commander of the Veterans of Foreign...

From the Hawaii Adjutant General Facebook Hawaii National Guard's participants in the The First Hawaiian Bank Troy Barboza Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. Check out the photos

Nathan J. Kim, 51, of Las Vegas, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Sunday, March 20, 2016. He was a 1982 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nathan was a former member of the Hawaii...