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Congratulations to Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares-Lum retired on Friday, April 8, 2021. She had served as the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command (US Indo-PACOM). Review her biography, a great military career. Video of her retirement ceremony Feedback on the 10-Digit...

Bob Sigall is a Star-Advertiser writer, whose weekly column, Rearview Mirror, looks back at Hawaii’s past. He also shares additional material in biweekly emails. In the middle of the current news about Aloha Stadium and its replacement, he emailed this...

We made it through another year! Today is the eighth anniversary of the first Retiree News post. Over the past year, we have increased “Check Six” posts with old photographs and Kūkā‘ilimoku issues. We will continue feature posts dealing with benefits and...

During the eight year of our existence, Retiree News reached some notable achievements.  During 2020, the website passed 1.3 million views. Over the past eight years, we have averaged over 165,000 views a year, and in 2020, we had close...

Today is December 31, 2020, the last day of 2020.  The coronavirus pandemic and other trying events made this a difficult year worldwide. Hawaii took extraordinary actions to minimize COVID-19 transmission.  Government directives shut down companies and unemployment reached record...

Feedback: An earlier post - Check Six – Early 1950s: Maintenance Crews - had a photograph of several aircraft mechanics. In this post, we could only identify three, Louis Kono, Robert Choi, and Harold Mattos. Later, George Kaneshiro submitted his comments: I remember most of these great...

Contact Request. Charles (Chuck) Barlow, MSgt USAF, Retired, is trying to get in touch with anyone from the 291st Combat Communications Squadron. Chuck was the squadron’s Technical Advisor from 1986 to 1991. Today, he is an Associate Engineer with Intertek, a leading...

Kūkā‘ilimoku Newsletter Posts. Retiree News has received great positive feedback about our Kūkā‘ilimoku posts. Theodore Merrill compilated the newsletters when he served as the 154th Wing historian. It was part of his 2001 report is on file with the Air Force Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB,...

Earlier Retiree News posted a photograph featuring four maintenance retirees, David “Snake” Snakenberg, Craig Harimoto, James Akau, and Kenneth Morimoto. Several Retiree News followers emailed about Snake’s physical appearance, asking if he was ill. After his retirement, he decided to lose some weight. He lost...

2020 Memorial Day services. Sad to report that Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and Governor David Ige’s ceremony at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery are cancelled. In talking to Ronald Han, Director the Office of Veterans Services, he said...