Retiree Update

I ran into Galen Nakahara at the commissary recently.  After retiring from the Hq, 201st Combat Communications Group many years ago, he has volunteered in several areas, including teaching tennis in elementary schools. After recovering from some medical challenges, he...

Back row (l-r): Jim Townsend, Galen Yoshimoto, Les Bise Front row (l-r): Emerick Kaneshi, Eli Ichishita, Ann Miyahira, Vern Nakasone A group of State Department of Defense retirees have dinner periodically to “talk story”. Dinner is usually Chinese with lots...

Off the Pacific Aviation Museum Twitter feed - @PacificAviation Randy from our Lt. Ted Shealy's Restoration Shop. Watch us at work in Hangar 79, our 2nd hangar.  click on photograph to enlarge Hawai‘i Air National Guard retiree Randy Lum has...

Governor David Y. Ige has appointed Edmund “Fred” Hyun as the Interim Chairman of the Hawaii Paroling Authority. During the 2017 Legislative session, the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor will hold an “advise and consent” hearing to review Fred’s...

Thanks to Tim Fujino for emailed these photographs of the latest 204th Airlift Squadron retiree luncheon.  The luncheon was held on August 22, 2016 at the Kountry Style Kitchen. Kountry Style Kitchen is owned retired Air Guard members, Rico and Celia Espinosa. Support Guard...

Wayne Yoshioka is a Hawai‘i Army National Guardsman who retired in 2007. He served in many positions with the Hawaii National Guard and a long Title 10 tour with the National Guard Bureau. He currently works at Hawaii Public Radio as their...

Dennis Vigue retired from the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2007.  He has been working with the Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since November 2009.  He started there as vocational training through the Veterans program at Tripler...

Raymond Jardine Jr., chairman and CEO of Native Hawaiian Veterans and Hawaii's Small Business Person of the Year, was named second runner-up for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s national Small Business Person of the Year award. Jardine was named the winner for Hawaii in March this...

Edmund “Fred” Hyun was appointed the Corrections Population Management Commission by Governor David Ige.  A Senate committee reviewed his qualifications and confirmed him at a public hearing.  Fred will draw on his 32 years with the State dealing with corrections...

Irwin Cockett served in the United States Army and the Hawaii Army National Guard. Cockett served during the Korean War as an enlisted man and a member of the 5th Regimental Combat team. After that, he enrolled in officer's candidate...