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 June 1968 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Palace Alert begins
* 199th Fighter Squadron news
* Promotions: including Norman Chang, Stanley Leong, Wallace Wong, Galen Yamada, Carl Wai, Dennis Fujii
From the Medical News Today website
Doctors use a variety of strategies to help people manage hypertension. When exercise and dietary measures, such as increasing potassium intake and reducing salt intake, are not enough to keep blood pressure within acceptable limits, many drugs are available.
Each of them attempts to either reduce cardiac output or reduce peripheral resistance in the body’s arterial system. One mechanism for reducing resistance to blood flow is to relax the muscles that surround the arteries and arterioles, allowing blood to flow more freely.
“Fundamental discoveries going back more than 60 years have established that the levels of calcium and potassium in the muscle surrounding blood vessels control how they expand and contract,” say the authors of a recent study. However, these scientists unexpectedly found that a metal, zinc, may also play a role in maintaining vascular tone.
This photograph shows (L-R) Bruce Olivera, Mark Logan, Bryan Suntheimer, and Glen Sakagawa. They were attending the promotion ceremony for Alika Watts to colonel on March 29, 2007. The ceremony took place at the Hawaii National Guard Headquarters on Diamond Head Road.
Updates:
* Bruce Olivera retired in 2016. He currently serves as the Community Programs Director for the State Department of Defense.
* Mark Logan retired in 2015. We understand he sailed to Tahiti in retirement.
* Bryan Suntheimer retired in 2018 after serving as the Deputy Commanding General US Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.
* Glen Sakagawa retired in 2003 after serving as the Commander of 29th Separate Infantry Brigade. In civilian life, retired from his Honolulu Postmaster position a few years later.
* Alika Watts retired in 2010 and started an environmental services company.
The Kūkā‘ilimoku is the official e-newsletter of the 154th Wing, Hawai’i Air National Guard. The first issue came in September 1957 and continues as a monthly e-newsletter today.
Today we feature the June 1976 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* More F-4C Phantoms arrive
* 154th Fighter Interceptor Group becomes the 154th Tactical Fighter Group
* 199th Weather Flight Tech School Honor Graduates
The 50th General Conference of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS) will convene at the Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd Street NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sunday, August 8, 2021 and will run through August 11, 2021.
The most up-to-date information can be found on the EANGUS Conference website. At https://eangusconference.org/. A complete agenda, to include meeting times and information on other conference events, will be published and continuously updated on the website.
For more conference information, review the 50th Conference Memo
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Since the reestablishment of the Royal Guard in 1963, this ceremonial unit has participated in many events each year.
This photograph shows the color guard unit at the 2019 Aloha Week Parade. In the photograph are (L-R): Jarrett Stone, Darrell Bactad, Thomas Mahi, Makaio Roberts, and Micah Faurot.
Mahalo to all the Hawaii Air National Guard members who served in the Royal Guard over the years.
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 June 1984 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Col Kurt E. Johnson retires
* CAM Sq News and Views Lots of familiar names…
* 154th Supplly Squadron News
* HANG O’Hana
Review the entire June 1984 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue
Depending on how much you need required minimum distributions to live on, these forced withdrawals from traditional retirement savings accounts, such as 401(k)s and IRAs, are either essential income or a complete nuisance. Lately, Uncle Sam has been giving retirees a reprieve from taking RMDs, first by raising the age that you must take them (from 70½ at the end of 2019 to 72 as of last year) and then waiving them altogether for 2020.
Now that RMDs are back, don’t let a lump sum of cash at the beginning or end of the year be your default for how and when to take the money. Instead, investment markets and your need for income should be your guide. Even that requires planning because you should “never have to sell assets in a declining market” to take an RMD, says Howard Hook, a principal and senior wealth adviser with EKS Associates in Princeton, N.J.
The more salt you eat, the more calcium your body gets rid of, which means it’s not there to help your bones.
COL (Ret) Gerry Silva forwarded this email from Hawaiian Airlines. Kimo Watson is Bernie and Sue’s son.
Aloha all,
It is my sad duty to report that Captain Bernie Watson passed away yesterday (6/13/2021) after a long battle with lung cancer. Bernie came to Hawaiian Airlines in 1970 after serving in Vietnam as an Army Aviator and rose to be the Chief Pilot at Hawaiian while achieving the rank of General in the Army National Guard.
One of his prouder moments was when we pinned his son Kimo with his 20 year pilot wings here at the Koapaka offices. Bernie retired in 2003 and remained the anchor consultant of the Flight Operations and Training Departments for many years thereafter. I soon learned the answer to most questions regarding Ops Specifications and the myriad Regulatory Compliance/FAA issues was – “Ask Bernie”.
Bernie – we will miss you,
Kimo – please accept our sincere condolences
You don’t train until you get it right. You train until you can’t do it wrong.
Retiree News extends heartfelt sympathy to Bernie’s family and friends. We will post more information about services when it becomes available.
This 1953 photograph shows (L-R): Wesley Lazarus, Frank Nakamura, Robert Choi, Robert McKee, Lewis Kono.
The Hawaii Air National Guard was seven years old and about to enter the jet age. The 199th Fighter Squadron was about to start their conversion from Republic P-47 Thunderbolts to North American F-86 Sabres. These maintenance crews were the foundation of the HIANG’s tradition of excellence.
Thanks to Lewis Kono for his identification assistance.
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 June 1992 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Total Quality Management (TQM)
* ANG NCO Academy Graduates Association, Chepter 18 News
* CAMS News & Views: lots of familiar names
* Promotions: including Keith Lee, Galen Kuwamoto, Preston Nishie
* Sports News
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