{"id":44389,"date":"2020-03-16T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2024-09-05T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:50:54","slug":"giving-a-future-pilot-her-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2020\/03\/16\/giving-a-future-pilot-her-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving a Future Pilot Her Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hawaiiairguard\/\"><em>Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2020\/03\/tori_thom-1_mid.jpg?w=478\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44392\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we reflect on the diverse backgrounds of the Airmen in our Ohana, there\u2019s few things that make us feel prouder than our female role models, such as Maj.&nbsp;<strong>Carrie Hironaka<\/strong>, a KC-135 pilot from the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s 203rd Air Refueling Squadron.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only does she represent the urgent need for enthusiastic and fully-capable female pilots in the Air Force, but she also found herself inspiring a young girl when working as a locally-based commercial pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com\/blog\/giving-a-future-pilot-her-wings-this-international-womens-day?fbclid=IwAR3Et_UPccjwd0esPeGHURI_p4lZ8eS5ES97NpIfoZttuy5tp8h_0q_aK-Y\">Read all about this moving story in the link below.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. 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All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page When we reflect on the diverse backgrounds of the Airmen in our Ohana, there\u2019s few things that make us feel prouder than our female role models, such as Maj.&nbsp;Carrie Hironaka, a KC-135 pilot from the Hawaii Air National Guard\u2019s 203rd Air Refueling Squadron.&nbsp; Not only does she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":44392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"43435,67416,45845,44378,31409,32315","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12393,15],"tags":[280,2008,4953,4954,5065],"class_list":["post-44389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020s","category-history","tag-203d-air-refueling-squadron-203-ars","tag-carrie-hironaka","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-hiang","tag-hawaii-air-national-guard-facebook-page","tag-hawaiian-airlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}