{"id":67103,"date":"2022-06-03T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=67103"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:52:19","slug":"check-six-2009-mg-gary-hara-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/06\/03\/check-six-2009-mg-gary-hara-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 2009: MG Gary Hara Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1604\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1.jpg 2100w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1-1536x1173.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/2009-0417-dod-retsvc-luncheon-047-hara-1-2048x1564.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Retiree News photograph<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><\/p><p>The Hawai\u2018i State Department of Defense once held Awards and Retirement luncheons twice a year. These luncheons recognized retiring Federal and state employees. Current employees who achieved 10, 20, 30 or more years of longevity received service awards. Luncheons were held at the Hale Koa Hotel.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photograph shows (L-R) <strong>Gary Teed<\/strong>, <strong>David Molinaro<\/strong> and <strong>Gary Hara<\/strong> at the April 17, 2009 luncheon. <span style=\"font-size:revert;\">Gary was 154th Civil Engineering Squadron commander and the base civil engineer. David was the Director of Staff at Hq, <span style=\"font-size:revert;\">Hawai\u2018i<\/span> Air National Guard.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The then-COL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/Leadership\/Joint-Staff\/Special-Staff\/Senior-Leader-Management-Office\/General-Officer-Management\/bio-show\/1743\/\">Gary Hara<\/a> was retiring from his full-time position with the <span style=\"font-size:revert;\">Hawai\u2018i<\/span> Army National Guard. He was promoted to brigadier general in June 2009 and became the Assistant Adjutant General &#8211; Army, <span style=\"font-size:revert;\">Hawai\u2018i National Guard, Honolulu, Hawaii. He later served as the Commander, Land Component Command, Hawaii National Guard. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was promoted to major general in December 2012. In June 2013, he became the Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, <span style=\"font-size:revert;\">Hawai\u2018i<\/span>.<\/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. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size:revert;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);\"> <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawai\u2018i State Department of Defense once held Awards and Retirement luncheons twice a year. These luncheons recognized retiring Federal and state employees. Current employees who achieved 10, 20, 30 or more years of longevity received service awards. Luncheons were held at the Hale Koa Hotel. This photograph shows (L-R) Gary Teed, David Molinaro and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":67104,"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":"45069,27950,65915,3893,10547,34077","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12395,12386],"tags":[1197,2156,2929,3133,4438,4453,4959,11585],"class_list":["post-67103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-check-six","tag-assistant-adjutant-general-army","tag-check-six","tag-david-molinaro","tag-deputy-commanding-general","tag-gary-hara","tag-gary-teed","tag-hawaii-army-national-guard-hiarng","tag-united-states-army-pacific-usarpac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67103","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=67103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}