Off the Hawaii Army National Guard Retention Facebook page
Here’s a quick recap from Friday’s change of command ceremony for Hawaii’s Own Recruiting and Retention Battalion. Big Mahalo to LTC Michael Rosner for everything you’ve done for RRB as our commander, we wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Let’s also welcome our new commander LTC James Fe’a-Fiame to RRB! Ola Ke Koa!
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 July 1976 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* “WAF” Acronym Goes Away
* Hawaii National Guard Enlisted Association (HNGEA) news
* Hawaii National Guard Association (HNGA) Council
* 154th Supply Squadron Happenings: including Glenn Sugawara, Alfredo Canopin
* Bits & Pieces Column: including BG Edward Yoshimasu, Geoffrey Avery
From the U.S. News & World Report website
We’ve heard tomatoes help your skin …
And that Mediterranean foods are good for your heart, and a little agave nectar doesn’t hurt your libido. But what about your eyes? It so happens that tomatoes contain lycopene and lutein, which are good for the eyes.
Here’s a list of food and beverages that are good for eye health:
From the Air Force Magazine website
The Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance combat aircraft, intended to complement or succeed the F-22 and F-35 in the air superiority role, has already flown, having been rapidly prototyped through modern digital design, Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper revealed September 15.
Roper made the revelation at the end of a talk at AFA’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference in which he said the Air Force is at an inflection point in how it will master future uncertainty. Making an analogy to the choice facing the main character in the movie “The Matrix,” the Air Force can “choose the red pill” and accept a new reality and new ways of buying the equipment it needs, or do things the old-fashioned way—taking the “blue pill”—and “lose,” Roper said. In the movie, the main character can choose to “wake up” from an elaborate illusion to a harsh reality, or continue in the illusion, which is comforting but false and self-defeating.
From the Kamaaina56 flickr page
Classic after-surf teriburger & plate lunch spot in Honolulu, on Monsarrat Avenue at Campbell in Kapahulu. Many Fort Ruger Guardmembers grabbed a breakfast or lunch at Burgerland on drill weekends from the 1960s through 2002. The drive-in changed owners in 2002 and became Diamond Head Market & Grill.
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 September 1984 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 199th Scores Darts and DACT!
* C-130 Hercules replaces the C-7 Caribou
* CAMS News & Views: always lots of familiar names
* “Break Right” by Lt Gaylord Dowson
A group of widely used medications might speed up older adults’ mental decline — especially if they are at increased risk of dementia, a new study hints.
The medications in question are called anticholinergics, and they are used to treat a diverse range of conditions — from allergies, motion sickness and overactive bladder to high blood pressure, depression and Parkinson’s disease.
The drugs are known to have short-term side effects such as confusion and fuzzy memory.
Thanks to retiree Gary Momohara emailed this photograph to Retiree News.
Gary said it was a Comptroller Section party in 2004. In the photograph are (L-R): Bryan Yonemoto, Nani Mahaulu, Ben Murata, Colosse Eliapo, and Carol Orr.
The hard-working Comptroller section did a super job managing the Hawaii Air National Guard’s finances.
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 September 1991 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* Family Day 1991
* CAMS News & Views: lots of familiar names
* Supply’s MAPPER System online
* New 154 CAM Sq. facilities dedicated
* ANG Softball tournament in Tennessee
* Senior Officer change of command
* Promotions: including Mark Yoshida, Louis Pontes III
People who don’t need income from their IRA, SEP and/or 401(k) are benefiting from this year’s waiver of required minimum distributions (RMDs). They’re reducing income taxes and preserving their plan assets.
But RMDs will return in 2021. Since retirees will be a year older than when they last took their RMDs, they’ll have to take out a slightly higher percentage from their retirement plans.
There’s one little-known way to reduce “RMD shock” in 2021 and beyond. That’s by placing some of your funds in a qualified longevity annuity contract. A QLAC is a type of deferred income annuity designed to meet IRS requirements. The money in a QLAC is excluded from assets on which future RMDs are calculated.
From the U.S. News & World Report website
There is a common misconception that people who come down with COVID-19 experience one of two disease courses: They have minimal or no symptoms that clear up in a week, or they get extremely ill and either die or recover after receiving intensive care treatment.
But now that the coronavirus has been under sharp focus for more than six months, physicians are noting that this binary belief is inaccurate. Some patients in both categories experience lingering symptoms and are at risk for long-term damage to organ systems weeks and months later.
From the Honolulu Magazine website
This article was originally published in July 2019. The list was updated on September 3, 2020.
Celebrate Labor Day weekend with our team’s top dogs, from the local beef variety ready for end of summer grilling to a hot dog stand in Waimānalo to an easy takeout meal with extravagant toppings and fillings.
From the Department of Defense website
We all know what dog tags are — those little oval disks on a chain that service members wear to identify themselves in combat. But have you ever wondered how and when that tradition started, and why they’re called dog tags?
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