From the Elder Law Answers website
With the coronavirus pandemic responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths and disrupting life across the United States, the only way for the country to return to normal is an effective vaccine. When a vaccine is available, Medicare will cover the cost.
From the Business Insider website
The E-4B “Nightwatch” is nicknamed the Doomsday Plane. It’s designed to survive a nuclear blast. In the event of nuclear war, the militarized Boeing 747 will become the command center for the US President, Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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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 July 1969 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 154th Fighter Group Awards includes some familiar names
* 199th Fighter Squadron News
* Promotions
* 154th Supply Squadron Hosts Retirement Dinner
From the This Day in Aviation website
23 July 1970: At Long Beach, California, the first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner was rolled out. A DC-10-10, serial number 46500 with FAA registration N10DC, this aircraft was used for flight testing and Federal Aviation Administration certification. It made 989 test flights, accumulating 1,551 flight hours. It was put into commercial service with American Airlines 12 August 1972, re-registered as N101AA.
Army Lt. Gen. Daniel Hokanson was confirmed Monday as the 29th chief of the National Guard Bureau by the U.S. Senate.
Hokanson, who also will be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be promoted to four-star general, the highest-ranking officer in the nation’s oldest military force.
The Senate action follows Hokanson’s June 18 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
The U.S. Senate confirmed U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael A. Loh to serve as the 13th director of the Air National Guard July 20.
By assuming the post, Loh will be promoted to lieutenant general.
“General Loh is an outstanding leader who clearly understands the evolving and complex strategic environment we face at home and abroad,” U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief, National Guard Bureau, said.
“His experience and proven record, especially in helping shape the National Guard’s space mission, make him uniquely qualified to lead the Air National Guard’s modernization efforts to meet tomorrow’s national security challenges and better protect our nation.”
As the DANG, Loh is responsible for formulating, developing, and coordinating all plans, policies, and programs for more than 107,700 Air National Guard Airmen and civilians in 90 wings and 175 geographically separated units located in 213 locations throughout the 50 States, 3 territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands), and the District of Columbia.
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:
* Schedule for August Open House
* HANG Out Club Reopens
* 154th Supply Squadron Happenings
* HANG 30 Flyer
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page
Are you a current or retired member of the Hawai’i Air National Guard or authorized dependent in need of legal assistance? With these uncertain times, are you in need of a will, power of attorney or advance medical directive?
Start the process from the comfort of your home, then obtain these legal documents from your local HIANG legal office.
Go to the following link: https://aflegalassistance.law.af.mil/
Click on Legal Worksheets, complete the online forms for the desired legal papers, once completed you’ll receive a ticket nunber for your request.
Email your ticket number, assigned unit (if current member), and island (or state if outside Hawai’i) of physical residence to the following: Derrick.Wong.1@us.af.mil
Once your request is processed, you’ll schedule an appointment to certify and finalize your legal documents.
For further questions or assistance please contact the HIANG legal office at (808) 789-0416
From the December 1965 Issue of the Hawai‘i Guardsman
The Hawai‘i Air Guard unit at Hickam AFB received a C-54 transport to replace the C-47 which they had in service for about 14 years. You would notice this new addition to the unit as you enter the area; it is located on the ramp where the Goony Bird once parked.
This aircraft will give the unit a larger cargo payload, plus a longer range. The additional personnel which it can carry will enable the aircraft to make less trips when transporting a large number of personnel. Its longer range will not limit the travel of this aircraft just to the Hawaiian Islands, but will enable it to travel to different countries (Japan, Samoa, Bora Bora, America, etc.
The flight maintenance crew consists of TSgt Samuel Saffery III, Edward Uyeda, and SSgt Abraham Hiapo. TSgts Saffery and Uyeda went on active duty for 20 days with the Air Force to familiarize themselves with this type of aircraft. Training took place with PACAF Base Command at Hickam AFB. During this period, they flew locally and made flights to Sacramento, California. The trip to California took 13 hours and was used as inflight training for the Guardsmen. Upon returning from active duty they applied what they had learned into getting HANG’s aircraft operationally ready.
The first pilot who started to get checked out on. This aircraft was none other than the head of the Hawai‘i Air National. Brig Gen Valentine Siefermann. The general has completely qualified himself as of this writing. Other squadron pilots are now in the process of qualifying themselves. They are Majors (William) Klopp and (??) Tuck.
The first long range trip for the C-54 has not been planned as yet, but who knows, Japan is not that far away.
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A reader recently reached out after his elderly mother died, asking how soon he could distribute the $10,000 she had earmarked in her will for each of her two grandchildren.
Because she lived in California, I had to break the bad news: He won’t be able to hand over the money any time soon.
The nickname was a misunderstanding that stuck. Spain was one of a few European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to convey all the horrid details.
News of the illness first made headlines in Madrid in May 1918. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in- depth accounts of the pandemic from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was ground zero.
Sources: Smithsonian, NYU Langone Online Journal of Medicine
From the December 1965 Issue of the Hawai‘i Guardsman
The Hawai‘i Air National Guard bid farewell to a familiar sight at the Hawai‘i Air Guard unit at Hickam AFB. Normally sitting outside the Waikīkī side of the hangar would be a blue and white C-47 assigned to the Air Guard.
It is no longer seen by Hawai‘i Guardsmen for on October 24th, the aircraft has returned to the Air Force. It will be flown to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. There it will serve with the military, probably to ferry VIPs and military personnel to Vietnam or southeast Asia.
It has been about 14 years since the Guard received this aircraft and during that time to the present, it has served loyally all units within the National Guard. It carried tons of cargo varying in size and shapes between the islands and also has transported thousands of Guardsmen, VIPs, and military personnel. It has served on mercy missions between the islands for both the military and civil organizations. The C-47 was a means of transportation when one of the fighters was forces to land on another island. It would carry both mechanics and supplies to the crippled plane.
So, it is with sad hear that we say “Aloha” to a loyal and faithful aircraft – the C-47 Goony Bird!
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