Year: 2016

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…

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…

Henry Keapokula “Hanalei” Yasso, 66, of Hoolehua, Molokai, a retired fire captain and an Army National Guard veteran, passed away in Hoolehua on May 24, 2016. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Sheldon, Hanalei, Kumukoa and Kolealono;…

John Chun emailed these two photographs.  Both deal with Consolidated Tool Kits (CKTs) in the Engine Shop.  John estimates the photographs are circa 2001.

Renfred Ho, of Makawao, Maui, a service representative for a Maui retail car sales firm and a Hawaii National Guard veteran, passed away in Wailuku on April 26, 2016. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Dale, sons…

UH Magazine is published quarterly the University of Hawaii Alumni Association. In the Spring issue, Dave Choo wrote an article about Maj Kai Kahele and Maj BJ Itoman. Major Kai Kahele and Major BJ Itoman fly the C-17 Globemaster III…

William Yen Chow “Bill” Yim, 89, of Honolulu, a retired Hawaii National Guard master sergeant, passed away in the Queen’s Medical Center on May 4, 2016. He was born in Guangdong, China. He is survived by wife Hui Ling Chen, son…

Alfred Hanuala “Freddy” Rabara Sr., 87, of Kailua-Kona, a retired Hawaii Police Department sergeant, West Hawaii coordinator under Mayor Herbert Matayoshi, and a National Guard veteran, passed away in Nakamaru Hale, Hospice of Kona on May 14, 2016. He was born…

Special thanks to Stephen Lum who shared this photo of then Captain Joseph Chaves.  We think it taken in the 1980s at one of the Exercise Team Spirit in Korea.