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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...

Retirements As reported earlier in Retiree News, Sandy Hashimoto will retire on Thursday – yes this week! Sandy has worked for many years in the Human Resource Office (HRO) as the retirement expert.  She helped all those who retired as...

Promotion Congratulations to Erik Wong, who received his Federal Recognition to colonel on May 22, 2015. Erik is currently assigned militarily to the 154th Medical Group, and works at Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard as operations training officer, a state...

Retirements Reminder: the deadline for signing up for SGM Kathy Arizo’s Retirement Celebration is rapidly approaching. Check the flyer for more details http://wp.me/P3639O-2F6 Retiring later this month is Olivia “Oli” Yee of the Human Recourses Office (HRO). Oli will retire...

Glenda Buis, recently retired from the Hawai‘i Air National Guard, started as a State employee at the Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Currently, she is a temporary hire but hopefully she will eventually fill the job permanently. Glenda served as the...

Congratulations to Edward Cruikshank! Representative K. Mark Takai asked Ed to serve as his military/veterans liaison.  He attended several veterans events with the representative during his recent Hawaii visit. Robert Inouye sent in a notice from HIARNG Announcements: Kalaeloa Sewage Water Project Enterprise...