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Sam Wong, retired Chief Master Sergeant, emailed corrections and additions to the webmaster's comments post. * Retiree News reported Ramona Fujimoto was a member of the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, when she in fact retired from the 204th Airlift Squadron. *...

Steve Berg, a retired Hawai‘i Air National Guard member who served with the then 169th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, provide these photographs to Retiree News. Special thanks to Steve for sharing these photographs The panoramic photo of the crowd...

Check Six: a pilot’s term meaning look behind you. Twenty years ago today, the 201st Combat Commutations Group hosted a retirement party of Lt Col Roy Matsumura.  Roy retired as the Group’s Director of Logistics.  Earlier in his career he...

The 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery will host an Armory Memorialization Ceremony to officially rename the Battalion’s Wahiawa Armory as the “COL Francis A. I. “Miki” Bowers Armory”. The renaming honors Colonel Bowers’ service and accomplishments throughout his 31-year career...

Retiree News received it's 50,000 hit sometime yesterday. Mahalo to everyone who loged on to check the Retiree News website over the past 15 months.  Your support is appreciated.   The site started slowly but has improved as we progressed through...

Taken from last Saturday’s Star Advertiser front page. Monday to Friday, Franklin Ho Jr. and Maui Quizon wear digital tiger-stripe camouflage with the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Today they'll be drilling as part of a unit that wears wool, dons pith...

The 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (MPAD) returned to Hawai‘i on January 31, 2013. From the Adjutant General's Facebook page: http://fb.me/2igz1D9B5. Photos by TSgt Andrew Jackson, HIANG.