From the Air Force Magazine website
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has voted to approve its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, increasing the top line of President Joe Biden’s defense budget by $25 billion while seemingly nixing the possibility of a separate Space National Guard.
The markup was approved 23-3 on July 22 and a summary released July 23, detailing roughly $740 billion in spending for the Defense Department. The Biden administration had requested $715 billion for the department in late May. Included in both versions of the budget is a 2.7 percent pay raise for troops.
Included in the markup, which will now advance to the full Senate, is a name change for the Air National Guard, making it the Air and Space National Guard. Such a move would likely mean there would be no separate Space Guard established.
From the Skies-of-Glory Twitter feed
For all the Phantom crews and maintainers over the years.
The war on ransomware continues to escalate.
The year 2020 was historic for the global COVID-19 pandemic. Last year was also the worst year ever when it came to malicious software attacks on companies, governments, and organizations, including the SolarWinds hack, which recent HIPAA Critical podcast guest Greg Reber called “the biggest information breach that we’ve ever seen.”
The year 2021, it seems, is on track to be even worse.
Ryan Kawailani Ozawa is the co-founder of several businesses dealing with communications and technology. He writes a monthly column on cyber issues in the Honolulu Star Advertiser. His father, Walter Ozawa is a retired Army colonel, who served as an administrator in local and state government.
The Kūkā‘ilimoku is the official e-newsletter of the 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard. The first issue came in September 1957 and continues as an e-newsletter today.
Today we feature the July 1972 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Selective Service rules modified
* 154th Fighter Group Open House postponed
* Promotions: including Michael Tice, Wayne Tome, Glenn Sugawara, Moses Timbal
From the Medical News Today website
People with vision problems have many options to help correct their vision and improve eye health. Many people opt for contact lenses or eyeglasses, as they are simple, quick. However, surgical options are also available.
Remember weapons qualifications at the Wheeler AFB firing range? This undated photograph shows Airmen on the firing line.
With the establishment of the U.S. Air Force as a separate service in 1947, Wheeler Army Air Base was re-designated Wheeler Air Force Base under the operational control of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). The following year, the installation was placed on minimum caretaker status; however, with expansion of the Air Force during the Korean War, Wheeler AFB was restored to fully operational status in 1952.
The 15th Air Base Squadron inactivated at Wheeler on October 31, 1991, one day before the U.S. Army assumed operational control of the installation in accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed by the Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces, and the Commander, US Army Western Command.
On 1 November 1, 1991, the Army held a simple ceremony to signify their takeover of the base, then changed the sign at the main gate to Wheeler Army Airfield. The installation, however, remained on the real property records of the 15th Air Base Wing until March 15, 1993 when an Action Memorandum signed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and Occupational Health) and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Housing) authorized the exchange of Wheeler AFB for Fort Kamehameha Military Reservation. (Wikipedia)
From the U.S. News & World Report website
Getting ready for retirement requires consistent saving, prudent investing and successfully avoiding penalties and fees. You can build a nest egg faster if you take advantage of workplace retirement benefits and make optimum use of government programs, including Social Security and Medicare.
The Kūkā‘ilimoku is the official e-newsletter of the 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard. The first issue came in September 1957 and continues as an e-newsletter today.
Today we feature the July 1980 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 154th Composite Group deployment a huge success
* SMSgt Cornwall Matsuoka designs the PMEC emblem
* News Notes by Doc Casey
* Sports News
* CAM Sq. News and Views: lots of familiar names
As U.S. health care completes its transformation toward a more efficient and effective future in the years ahead, Americans will need to protect themselves and their families from those aspects of physician culture that lead to poorer outcomes and higher costs.
In this photograph (L-R) are Tulsi Gabbard, Keith Tamashiro, Arthur “Joe” Logan, and Mark Takai. It was taken on February 7, 2014 at the Change of Command ceremony when Keith Tamashiro took command of the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from Bruce Oliveira.
Kyle Mark Takai served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Hawaii’s 1st congressional district, from 2015 to 2016. He passed on July 20, 2016 from pancreatic cancer at age 49.
Prior to his election to the United States House of Representatives, he represented District 33 (Aiea) in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2014. For 10 years, he was the Chair of the Veterans, Military & International Affairs & Culture and the Arts Committee.
As humans, most of us seem to inherently understand that living a long, healthy and happy life is a gift to be cherished, but not one afforded everyone. Today’s longer life expectancies have even changed the way we plan for retirement.
But for more than a year now, the potential for a long life, well-lived has collided with fears associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
For many of us, this fear has formed a cloud of uncertainty that now looms over our retirement, even as we recover from the pandemic. A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research uses the term Survival Pessimism to describe this cloud, which simply means not expecting to live a very long life. In the study, people in their 50s, 60s and 70s underestimated their average expected lifespan. The translation: For over a year now, for many of us, the fear of dying has overshadowed living a rich and rewarding life after we retire.
The Kūkā‘ilimoku is the official e-newsletter of the 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard. The first issue came in September 1957 and continues as an e-newsletter today.
Today we feature the July 1988 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 199th Fighter Squadron welcomes David Dyas, Lonnie Mahi, A.W. “Balt” Balthazar, and H.R. Haldeman
* CAM Sq. News and Views: lots of familiar names
* 169th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron News
* Promotions: including Gary Peters, Ronald Fukumoto, Wescott Lee, Clifford Ono
* Sports News
From the Medical News Today website
In a recent article, researchers explored the findings of past studies into heart-healthy eating. Using keyword searches of PubMed, a database of biomedical articles, the authors sought to extract high-level insights from existing research.
They present their conclusions in a new article in the European Society of Cardiology’s journal Cardiovascular Research.
Before we outline the findings, it is important to mention that the authors disclose conflicts of interest. They explain that funding came from the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, a think tank created by pasta giant Barilla. This organization endorses the Mediterranean diet — an endorsement shared by the research team.
The largest assemblage of U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter planes is in the Pacific region for exercises analysts say is a strong message to China.
About 25 F-22s were deployed to three air bases on Guam and one in the Northern Mariana Islands from the Hawaii Air National Guard and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, for “Operation Pacific Iron 2021.”
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