From the Medical News Today website
Several things can cause heart palpitations and headaches to occur together, including low blood pressure, dehydration, and diet. Some conditions may require treatment, but the symptoms can pass on their own.
Heart palpitations are heartbeats that are more noticeable. For example, they can cause a pounding or fluttering feeling.
Headaches cause pain in the head, face, or neck.
Heart palpitations and headaches can occur together. This article will discuss several possible causes of this and how to treat them.
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page
Flu vaccinations are a yearly requirement for military members. This year however with COVID-19 response efforts in full effect, the Hawaii Air National Guard administered the flu vaccine to its airmen utilizing a novel and efficient approach while still being able to follow pandemic mitigation standards.
For 2021, employees who are saving for retirement through 401(k)s, 403(b)s, most 457 plans, and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan can contribute up to $19,500 to those plans during the year. That’s the same contribution limit in place for 2020.
The “catch-up” contribution limit for employees age 50 or older who participate in these plans also holds steady in 2021 at $6,500 (for a total contribution limit of $26,000 for employees 50 and older).
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 newsletter today.
Today we feature the November 1959 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 1Lt Alexander “Blackie” Bell‘s aircraft save
* New ID cards
* Promotions: including Rex Koga to Airman Second Class
Ed Cruickshank (COL, USA, Retired) sent the following information with these comments.
My fellow veteran’s this video is for you and your families. The council couldn’t have the ceremony at Punchbowl for Veterans Day like we have in the past —so we’re bringing it to you. Hope you enjoy it. As retired guardsmen we have a lot to be proud off. God bless
This video is the official Hawai’i Veterans Day 2020 Virtual Ceremony Video, sponsored by the O’ahu Veterans Council. This video was directed by President Ed Cruickshank (COL, USA, Retired) and Executive Director Claire Levinson of the O’ahu Veterans Council, and produced by Jerome Osurman (Lt Col, USAF, Retired) of iHi Photography.
This video honors all Veterans (past & present) and their families, as well as all active duty members and their families from all six (6) Services: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and our newest Service, Space Force. We hope that you enjoy this virtual event as we are “Proud to be Americans, and honored to be Veterans”.
The YouTube link:
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 newsletter today.
Today we feature the November 1975 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* First F-4C Phantom arrives / Phantom Facts
* A1C Donna E. Culnan awarded the HANG Airman Award. (Donna later married Gary Von, who worked on the fighter flightline)
* 154th Supply Squadron Happenings
* 154th Combat Support Squadron security police authorized blue berets
Crown Royal has partnered with nonprofit Packages From Home to send free care packages to U.S. troops.
“Crown Royal believes it’s not what you have, it’s what you give and how you give it,” the company said. “That’s why Crown Royal is honored to partner with Packages From Home to turn every donated Crown Royal Bag into care packages for active American military heroes around the world.”
On the Crown Royal website, you can pick four of the troops’ “most requested and needed items,” and the package will be sent overseas free of charge in the company’s iconic Crown Royal bags.
The items include beef jerky, cookies, fruit snacks, nuts, peanut butter singles, popcorn, protein bar/ granola bar and tea.
The goal of the promotion, which is not sponsored by the U.S. military, is to provide 1 million bags by the end of 2020.
You are also able to provide a message to the recipient of the package.
Packages from Home was founded by Kathleen Lewis, whose Army soldier son, Christian, once told her “that receiving familiar items not only provided the comforts of home that he missed so much, but also reminded him that someone was thinking of him, which helped him combat the loneliness and dangers of deployed life.”
The site allows 10 care packages to be sent per person, and you must be 21 or older to participate.
The promotion runs through November 30 while supplies last.
There is an age verification gate at the website.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Veterans Day National Committee produced this Teachers Resource Guide. It provides information for teachers who want to thank America’s Veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice, we can reward them with the honor they so richly deserve. The Teachers Guide
Thanks to Darrell Bactad for send this photograph to Retiree News. It shows Darrell, the current Kapena Moku (Captain) of the Royal Guard, and Randall Lum, a former Kapena Moku. Both were attending the memorial service of Ronald Cozo, who was another retired Kapena Moku.
Related: Taps: Ronald Cozo
The Royal Guard is an Air National Guard ceremonial unit which is uniformed in a manner similar to the royal bodyguard of the Kingdom of Hawaii of the late 19th century. The original 50-man unit had been disbanded by King Lunalilo after the barrack mutiny of 1873, reestablished by King Kalakaua, and finally abolished when the monarchy fell in revolution at the end of the 19th century.
The current Royal Guards were raised in 1962 as a purely ceremonial unit. Each guardsman is a Hawaiian resident, a member of the Hawaii Air National Guard, of full or partial Hawaiian descent. The unit appears in support of the Governor at official State and other public functions; less frequently, the unit appears at ceremonies involving descendants of former Hawaiian royalty. (Wikipedia)
A saber used during the 1814 Battle of Baltimore and “hillbilly armor” crafted by underfunded U.S. troops during the early days of the Iraq War are among the 1,389 artifacts visitors can see for the first time at the National Museum of the United States Army this Veterans Day.
The 185,000-square-foot museum at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, opens November 11 with free, timed-entry tickets available if reserved in advance. The museum, said its director, Tammy Call, traces the U.S. Army’s lineage back to the colonial militias that formed in the early 1600s.
On June 20, 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden delivered keynote remarks at an event hosted by the Center for a New American Security, the think tank founded and, at that point, led by Michèle Flournoy.
Flournoy introduced Biden, praising him as a national security thinker and noting the ties between his staff at the White House and CNAS. Biden, in turn, acknowledged the little-kept secret of the defense world: that Flournoy was in line to become the first woman to serve as defense secretary under President Hillary Clinton.
From the Air Force Magazine website
President Donald J. Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on Nov. 9, just days after the media declared former Vice President Joe Biden the projected President-elect.
Christopher C. Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will serve as acting Secretary of Defense, “effective immediately,” Trump tweeted.
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 1967 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Sick Call procedure
* New Honolulu telephone numbers have 7 digits
* Promotions – including Jason Chun, Bob Guerrero, Gary Teves
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