Month: June 2018

This undated photograph shows some members of the 154th Wing’s Electric Shop. Shown are (L-R): David Helmic, August Bernardino, Robin Ito, Kevin Shiraki, and Herbert Takeuchi, the shop chief. Retiree News believes the photograph is from the late 1980s, at the…

Colonel James S. Shigekane became the Vice Commander of the 154th Wing on October 1, 2018.  He replaced Colonel Kurt Shigeta who retired. Colonel Shigekane received his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in May 1992.  He completed pilot…

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page When the Kilauea volcano erupted on Hawaii’s Big Island, members of the 297th Air Traffic Control Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, were just getting home from a seven-month deployment that sent them to…

BG (Ret) Bernard Watson emailed Retiree News with this sad news. It is with saddened heart that I pass along the news that USAF Brigadier General and Hawaiian Airlines Captain Bob Maguire has passed away on Tuesday evening June 12, 2018.…

Keith Kunichika was commissioned in the Hawaii Air National Guard in 1977. Keith served in the then 154th Composite Group in the maintenance complex and later as the budget officer and controller. An AGR, he retired in 2003. He then entered…

MSgt Peter P.K. Kawanana Kali, Jr. A much-loved individual, 47, of Aiea, Hawaii, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on April 13, 2018 at his home surrounded by family and friends. P.K. was born on January 03, 1971 in…

William "Abby" Aberilla, 76, of Kaneohe, died in Honolulu on May 9, 2018. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 9 am; Services: 10:30 am on Friday, June 22 at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Burial: 1 pm at Hawai‘i State Veterans…

The following was copied from the Wikipedia for history: Troopers from the HARNG’s Troop E 19th Cavalry: John Tripoli, Roland Gambol, Paul Mauricio, and George Cristobal The 19th Cavalry was constituted on 24 October 1967 in the Hawaii Army National Guard as…

From the Honolulu Star Bulletin archive website Members of the Hawaii Army National Guard's 29th Support Battalion show off ukuleles and songbooks they received from Anita Coyoli-Cullen and Shirley Orlando of California. The soldiers shown above are: first row from…

In the undated photograph, shows three members of the 201st Combat Communications Group (201 CCG). Lt Col Blaine Izuka, SSgt Patrick Bailon and Capt Michael Doolin review situation reports during a Makani Pahili  exercise. Blaine retired after serving the Director of Operations, 201…