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New Chiefs: As reported in the March 2017 issue of the Kūkā‘ilimoku, Lee C. Sonomura and Edward M. Tang became the HIANG’s newest Chiefs at a March 1, 2017 ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Chief Sonomura served in the...

Retiree News is sad to report that Sam Kekuna passed away on Saturday afternoon. Sam served in the 154th Maintenance Squadron from many years. We will post information about services when available. Thanks to Doug Awana and others who emailed Retiree News.

James Suzuki update: Our initial post listed information about the inurnment service. The post is updated to show that inurnment will be a private, family-only service. Please honor the family’s request. Benny Goo update. Several retirees emailed asking if Retiree...

Retiree Update: Benjamin Goo was the supervisor of flight simulator operations during the 154th Wing’s F-102 Delta Dagger era. Inspection teams always recognized his operations as an example of how things should operate. Benny is credited as one of the founders of...

Update to the 293d Combat Communications Squadron deactivation post.  Added to the post later was a copy of the ceremony program. Colonel Erik Wong sent the program after the ceremony, but we did not post it the other day. We...

Taps Revisit There were a lot of you who visited the 2016 Taps Recall post - http://wp.me/p3639O-4Vv. We worked with these Guard members and there is a memory or two for the members you knew. You can revisit the 2015...

Congratulations to Stephen Lum. His article about the first prisoner of war of Bellows on December 7, 1941 is posted on the GX The Guard Experience website. Retiree News posted a shorter version of his article on December 8, 2016....

As 2016 ends, Retiree News would like to thank all of you for your continuing support of this website. There were 1100+ posts that received over 140,000 hits. Much of these hits were from the United States, but we did...

Team 808 is a group of Hawai‘i Army and Air National Guard members assigned to the National Guard Bureau and other locations in the Washington DC area. Left to right: Raquel Ramos, MSgt Thu Dahl, SFC Linda Hesch, Lt Col...

Retirement: I retired from the State Department of Defense on December 1, 2016. It was a great 10+ years as a State employee. The position allowed me to extend my association with the Hawai‘i National Guard to more than 48...