This undated photograph shows Capt. Kurt Johnson instructing 1st Lt. Robert “Bobby” Hinkley on fighter tactics. On the fuselage of the F-86 Sabre is the original 199th Fighter Squadron logo designed by1st Lt. Wade McVay, Jr.
Mahalo to Edward Richardson and Tai Hong for identification help and comments.
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 a monthly newsletter today.
Today we feature the December 1990 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 1990 HIANG Awards Banquet – familiar names
* Promotions: including Calvin Yoshimoto, Kenneth Johnson, Lane Higa, Pamela Goya
* CAMS News & Views: lots of familiar names
I heard that the commissary surcharge is going up, and it’s going to cost us more to shop there. Is that true?
There’s good news and bad news. First, the good news is that the surcharge is definitely not going up.
There is, however a relatively recent additional fee for using debit or credit cards.
Overall, interest in commissary cost increases do not receive much interest for most retirees. Unlike Honolulu, these are a lack of commissaries in most states (and our neighbor islands). Congress had moved toward less financial support and requiring commissaries to be self supporting. The drive to merge commissaries and exchanges will continue to reduce operating costs.
Feedback: An earlier post – Check Six – Early 1950s: Maintenance Crews – had a photograph of several aircraft mechanics. In this post, we could only identify three, Louis Kono, Robert Choi, and Harold Mattos.
Later, George Kaneshiro submitted his comments:
I remember most of these great leaders in the photo below sorry but not all. The last two that are squatting are Fred Mau and Norman Ault. Standing 2nd from left is Sullivan, and the last four that are standing are Lewis Kono, Bobby Choi, Harold Mattos and William (?) Lazarus. These men were aircraft mechanics.
Another post – New commander for 254th Air Base Group, Guam ANG – reported that Christopher “Frenchy” Faurot assuming command. Retiree News received several requests for his email address. Send your congratulations to: christopher.faurot@us.af.mil
Video Comments. Our post about flight operations at Dillingham Field had some feedback. Yes, there were orange flight suits. The transition to the olive drab suits began in the late 1960s. We can’t speak to the berets….
Kurt Johnson seen in the video designed the 199th Fighter Squadron logo. In the early 1970s, he designed the tail flash for the F-102 Delta Daggers. This tail flash designed carried over to the F-4 Phantoms, F-15 Eagles and modified for the current F-22 Raptors. Kurt provided a name of Hawaiian bird for each F-4 Phantom. His Hawaiian influence and themes are a part of the squadron and the 154th Wing’s history.
Feedback: Last week’s post – Check. Six – 1970s: Mobility Line Processing – had an identification error. Vince “VJ” Park was mistakenly identified as Dean Park. Another reader identified the airman next to VJ as Benet “Ben” Costa. Thanks to Doug Awana, Billy Chang and others who provided feedback.
From the Wired Magazine website
Like most everything else in 2020, the holiday season this year is going to look and feel a whole lot different than any before it. But while office parties will be virtual and get-togethers will be tiny (if they happen at all), there are some things that even a pandemic can’t change. Like that one hard-to-please aunt being impossible to shop for and, on the merrier side, the fact that a holiday movie marathon is just a click away. Like—ahem— some aunts, it’s hard to find a festive film that will please everyone, but at least one of the 13 titles below is sure to get even the grinchiest of revelers into the holiday spirit.
One of America’s most recognizable icons of fresh-scented cleanliness comes from New Jersey. No matter where U.S. shoppers are lucky enough to spot cans of Lysol, the sanitizing spray was almost certainly produced at the same sprawling, tan-colored factory, in a suburb an hour’s drive from New York City.
Over the noisy plant’s concrete floors, a steady stream of empty cans clink through an assembly line, waiting to be filled. On the line, a machine packs them all with a blend of ethanol, another disinfecting chemical called a quaternary ammonium compound, or quat, and some scent. Employees call the mixture the Juice.
From the Medical News Today website
Fitness trackers include a wide range of products. Some merely count steps, whereas others monitor daily activities, measure sleep, track calorie burn, and offer health tips through an app.
The best fitness tracker for a person depends on their health goals and budget, as well as the specific fitness activities or health metrics that they wish to track.
In this article, we discuss how fitness trackers can benefit people and the conditions for which they could provide meaningful data. We then provide more information about four of the best fitness trackers available to buy.
Trust: Law – an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.
A revocable living trust is usually the best way to pass your assets to your heirs after you are gone.
Unlike a will, assets titled in a revocable living trust avoid both the time and expense of going through the probate courts and keep your financial affairs from becoming a matter of public record.
And like any good estate plan it can be used to plan for the possibility of your being incapacitated, reduce or avoid any death tax, make sure the right heirs get your assets after you‘re gone, and it does not change the tax treatment of your assets while you’re alive.
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 a monthly newsletter today.
Today we feature the November 2008 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 154th Security Forces Squadron down range
* 154th Air Control Squadron deactivation
* Photographs from the IRRE
* Stanley “Ossum” Osserman promoted to Brig. Gen.
* Promotions: including Alan Bergerson, Clesson Paet,
* 154th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (154 AMXS) Olympic Sports Day
This month, Lt. Col. Anne McClain became the first active-duty soldier in Army history to earn the rare astronaut uniform device.
Gen. James H. Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, presented the Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior pilot and combat veteran with the device during a November 10 ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, according to a U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command news release. The device is considered the rarest qualification device any soldier can receive.
The upcoming Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration’s immediate challenges are obvious: Fight the worsening pandemic and bolster the economic recovery. But the 2020 election may also mean that older Americans will see major policy changes affecting their retirement and health care coverage.
In fact, legislation to improve retirement security is one broadly popular initiative likely to find support even in a divided Congress and country. At least that was the sentiment of a virtual panel I just moderated for the 11th annual Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, a collaboration of the Gerontological Society of America and the Journalists Network on Generations.
From the Medical News Today website
According to a survey by the polling organization Gallup in 2019, people living in the United States reported some of the highest levels of n the world.
Chronic stress not only increases a person’s risk of depression and anxiety but also their chances of developing diseases including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and Alzheimer’s.
Reducing stress is not easy at the best of times, however, and it is even more difficult in the face of circumstances such as political turmoil and an ongoing pandemic.
This undated photograph show airmen going through a mobility processing line. Dean Park is the first airman in line, This was the early days of mobility and the process evolved over the years.
The loss of federal stimulus funding next month for the Hawaii National Guard will be a significant blow to Hawaii’s COVID-19 response efforts, especially amid fears of more holiday-related hospitalizations and as COVID-19 cases surge on the continent.
Approximately 850 Hawaii National Guard soldiers and airmen have played a major role in the pandemic response in the islands, assisting various state agencies by conducting temperature checks and COVID-19 screening at airports, working as data analysts and contact tracers at the Department of Health, and conducting testing and educational outreach at schools, businesses and low-income neighborhoods.
Retiree News 