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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...

A recent Webmaster Comment post discussed David Howard. Dave emailed an expanded personal history that corrected some of my errors the original posting. I appreciated the mention.  You got a bit of it right. I started my time in the Hawai‘i Air...

I ran into Jimmy Dang recently while grocery shopping. We discussed TRICARE's move from CVS/Longs to Walgreens and other Guard related subjects. Jimmy is enjoying retirement as you can see from his photo. He was a technician in the 154th Wing...

Sometime over the last weekend, the Retiree News website received its 350,000 hit.  That’s 350,000 hits since the first post on January 22, 2013. Mahalo to all those supporters who visited the site – it is appreciated. Help! If you...