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Senator Brian Schatz issued a press release announcing that defense spending in Hawaii would increase by more than $200 million. Included in this appropriation is $44 million for an F-22 fighter alert facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Hawaii Air...

A time to celebrate for Retiree News! Sometime yesterday, the website passed 100,000 hits in 2015. Thanks to everyone for your support. Retiree News continues to improve; sharing information with Hawaii National Guard retirees, members and friends.

Webmaster Comments 15.09.08 discussed a Honolulu magazine article about the Zippy’s Senior Club. One of it’s members is Clifford Fukuji, a retired Hawaii Air National Guard member. The magazine finally posted the digital copy of the article, click here to...

Congratulations to CMSgt Robert Lee. He is the new military liaison and protocol officer on Governor David Ige’s staff. The Chief starts his new job on Monday. The Chief currently services as the training officer at the Human Resources Office (HRO)....

More on CMSgt Robert “Bobby” Choi. Borthwick Mortuary will handle his services and on their website is a collection of photographs. Check out the photographs In Honolulu magazine’s September issue is an article titled The Zippy’s Senior Club. Writer Martha...

200,000 Views and Counting Sometime over the weekend, Retiree News passed the 200,000 views threshold. Mahalo to all the readers who visit the Retiree News daily or occasionally. The website continues to improve since the first post on January 22,...

Congratulations to Colonels Kenneth Hara and Suzanne Vares-Lum! The United States Senate confirmed both officers promotion to brigadier general. The National Guard Bureau email announcement said in part: The Chief of the National Guard Bureau is pleased to announce that...

Update: 201st Combat Communications Group inactivation ceremony In early 2013, the National Guard Bureau verbally notified the Hawai‘i Air National Guard (HIANG) that they were inactivating the Headquarters, 201st Combat Communications Group. The effective date of the inactivation would be...

My Back Pages: 1985 - 30 years ago, published last week was a photograph with then Lieutenant Gary Littlefield with two unidentified solders. Retiree News asked if anyone could identify the other two soldiers in the photograph. Naomi Enriquez-Soraoka emailed...

Retiring soon is MAJ Manny Carlos.  He starts his terminal leave at the end of the month. There was a small retirement luncheon (at his request) at the Willows Restaurant last Friday. In attendance were his family, his co-workers and...