This photograph shows Stanley “Ed” Toy, and Anson Kimura. It was taken at the Asia-Pacific Homeland Security Summit & Exposition which was held on November 9-10, 2009. The State Department of Defense hosted the event at the Sheraton Waikīkī Hotel.
The conference theme was Securing Population Centers, focusing on present and future capabilities necessary to protect population centers. Attendees discussed opportunities for partnerships in the business, government and non-profit sectors, necessary for an effective tiered response.
Ed was one of several Hawai‘i Army National Guard representatives. Anson, an HIARNG retiree, was a staff member of the then-State Civil Defense.
From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website
Growing up in the Boston area, Matt Malone was a self-described troubled youth. In trouble with the law. A college GPA of 0.7. In his own words, “a shit head.”
Malone is now the superintendent of Fall River Public Schools in Massachusetts. He oversees 16 schools, 10,400 students and 1,800 staff members. He also previously served as the Massachusetts Secretary of Education under Gov. Deval L. Patrick.
How did a troubled kid turn into a leader shaping the next generation? A deployment as a Marine during Operation Desert Storm.
From the Medical News Today website
COVID-19 typically produces a range of flu-like symptoms, including a cough and fatigue, but it can also cause the loss of taste and smell. Taste and smell can return or get better within 4 weeks of the virus clearing the body, but it may sometimes take months for them to improve.
A loss of taste and smell is a common early symptom of COVID-19. Therefore, anyone who notices changes in these senses should start self-isolating and get a COVID-19 test.
Changes might include:
taste and smell being less sensitive than normal
no sense of smell or taste
foods tasting strange
odors smelling unusual
When a person contracts SARS-CoV-2 and develops COVID-19, the loss of taste and smell could be their only symptom.
This article discusses the loss of taste and smell as a symptom of COVID-19.
Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page
If you see this letter/message or tweet circulating on social media or out in the public, IT IS FALSE (and has some bad grammar). We first saw this fabricated message circulating on social media and through texts messages in March to create fear. It popped up again in the summer and again in the fall, and we’re seeing it yet again today. If you see it come across your feed, please do not encourage the spread.
Off the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Facebook page
Lt. Col. Katherine O. Kalama officiated a change of command for the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 297th Engineering Detachment and 1950 Contingency Contracting Team. During the ceremony, Lt. Crystal Rodrigues took command from Capt. Katherine Johnson. The ceremony was held at the 103rd Troop Command in Waiawa, Hawaii on January 10, 2021.
A change of command ceremony symbolizes the exchange from one command to the next.
View more photographs by Sgts Randell E. Corpuz and Matthew A. Foster
From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website
Dan Zedan chokes up as he remembers saying goodbye to his children when he went off to war 30 years ago.
“I’ll never forget that night. Forgive me if I get emotional,” he said.
Zedan, a Coast Guard Reserve commander at the time, served more than six months in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He spent the first two months as a liaison to the Joint Task Force, planning and executing the war. Then he took command of Port Security Unit 302, protecting ships coming into the Bahrain harbor and advising their Coast Guard.
The U.S. Coast Guard never mobilized since World War II. No one expected they would again, including Zedan, who was a vice president of marketing in Chicago when his 15-year-old daughter called.
“Dad, are you going overseas?” she asked.
“What are you talking about?”
“There’s a war,” she said. “It’s war.”
It was Aug. 2, 1990.
Tsianina (prounced Sha-Neenah) was watching news coverage about Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
“No, don’t worry,” he told her over the phone. “It will be over quick.”
Planning is everything. financial strategies can take years to put in motion and even longer to bear fruit. The last thing you want is to sabotage yourself by missing an important financial deadline, like any one of these dates in 2021.
Use this guide as a checklist and reminder of what you will need to do.
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page
The Hawai‘i Air National Guard leadership team, including the Hawai‘i Air National Guard Commander, Brig. Gen. Joseph Harris, and the Assistant Adjutant General Air, Brig. Gen. Duke Ota, recently surveyed the operations of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard’s 154th Wing, Medical Detachment 1.
During the site visit the unit demonstrated their mass vaccination capabilities along with other missions sets like Search and Extraction, Broad Area Disinfection, and Mask Fitting, among others. The Med Det 1, is a unit comprised of medical professionals from many different disciplines, including EMTs, firefighters, nurses, and doctors. Every member holds a high level of professional certifications and are pioneers in the military medical response field.
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 January 1983 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Aircraft Down, Aircrew Safe / Commanders’ Corner
* CAM News and View: lots of familiar names
* Edward Richardson promoted to brigadier general
* MEi/ORI recap
* Sports Nows
* Supply Squadron news
From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website
In U.S. wars prior to Desert Storm, military spokespeople would answer questions, then wait for the next day’s newspaper clippings or the nightly news to see developments.
Desert Storm changed that, when reporters broadcast the war as it happened.
Cases of anaphylactic shock caused by COVID-19 vaccines are very rare, based on numbers from the first week and a half of vaccinations in the United States, federal public health officials said Wednesday.
There have been 21 cases of anaphylaxis out of nearly 1.9 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine administered in the very first days of the national COVID-19 vaccination program, said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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 December 1990 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Lanakila School Christmas Party
* CAMS News & Views: lots of familiar names
* Promotions: including Leona Chandler, Dane Tsubota, Rafael Rodriguez, Victor Talamoa
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