From the Kiplinger Magazine website
Lately, clients seem to be more concerned than usual that a market correction is looming. And naturally those nearing retirement want to be sure their nest egg is protected.
Of course, no one can predict what the market will do next — and it’s a dangerous game to try — so it’s best to focus on what you can control, rather than what you can’t.
Promise & Peril By 2025, a wildly wired world will bring convenience and effeciency. With it will come a whole lot more vulnerability By William Matthews
Shock & Awe Guardsmen find war-like despair, destruction along the Florida Keys after Hurricane Irma’s direct hit By Cody Erbacher
‘I’m always after increasing the capability of our people’ A conversation with Lt. Gen. L. Scott Rice, director of the Air National Guard
From the CNN website
The maker of a little red pill intended to treat a rare condition is raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year as it aggressively targets frail and elderly nursing home residents for whom the drug may be unnecessary or even unsafe, a CNN investigation has found.
And much of the money is coming straight from the federal government.
This photograph shows Robert Ajitomi and Maximo “Max” Valenzuela, both members of the then 202d Combat Communications Flight. The photograph is undated but probably was taken in the 1970s.
Max was a technician who retired after a long career. He passed away several years ago. Robert was a Traditional Guardmember who was a student, and got out of the Guard after graduation. Robert’s older brother, Henry, also served with the 202 CCF.
From the This Day in Aviation website
U.S. Air Force photo
The very last Boeing B-52 Stratofortress was delivered to the United States Air Force. B-52H-175-BW 61-0040, which was rolled out at Wichita, Kansas, October 26, 1962, was the 744th B-52 built by Boeing at Seattle and Wichita.
From the This Day in Aviation website
The United States Air Force received the 116th and last Convair B-58 Hustler, B-58A-20-CF 61-2080. It was assigned to the 305th Bombardment Wing at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana. (This was renamed Grissom AFB in honor of astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. Later renamed as Grissom AFRB) After just over seven years in service, this airplane was retired to The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, 6 January 1970. It is on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum.
The photograph above shows Kathleen Berg being sworn in by her husband Stephen Berg. The date is in early 1977 because she was commissioned in August 1977.
The future general first served with the then 201st Combat Communications Group on Hickam AFB. Her first assignment was as the Group’s public affairs officer. Her complete official military biography: Brigadier General Kathleen F. Berg.
The general was a Traditional Guardmember her entire career. In her civilian life, she holds a doctorate in educational psychology and served in a variety of positions at the University of Hawaii, Manoa’s College of Education over a 40-year career. Her university biography: MIC3 Brig Gen Berg Bio 2015.
Stephen Berg came off active duty and also served in the 201 CCG. He later transferred to the 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron. A retired AGR, he also holds a doctorate and taught mathematics at Hawaii Pacific University for many years.
Special thanks to Stephen Lum who digitized this photograph from a black and white negative.
From the U.S. News & World Report website
Social Security beneficiaries will get 2 percent bigger payments in 2018. The Social Security program will also be tweaked in several important ways that affect how much you pay in and will receive in retirement.
Here’s a look at the Social Security changes you can expect to see in 2018.
Franklin Y.C. Kho, 81, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on October 3, 2017. He was born in Honolulu.
Visitation: 9:30 a.m.; Services: 10:30 a.m. on Friday, October 27, 2017 at Borthwick Mortuary, Makai Chapel. Inurnment: 2:00 p.m. at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
From the Task and Purpose website
Tear open any MRE and you’ll find a vacuumed-sealed meal, utensils, coffee, gum, salt, pepper, and sugar. But the holy grail — the thing that truly ties the processed food together and makes guzzling down that packaged, bland cuisine bearable — is that little packet of red hot fury: Tabasco.
But how did the ubiquitous hot sauce become the savior of the MRE and, in turn, the American GI? Surprisingly, Tabasco traces it roots all the way back to the Civil War.
From the Military.com website
President Donald Trump on Monday presented the nation’s highest award for valor to a former Green Beret medic for his heroism on a secret operation during the Vietnam War.
At a White House ceremony, Trump presented the Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Gary Michael “Mike” Rose for treating as many as 70 wounded soldiers during Operation Tailwind from Sept. 11 to Sept. 14, 1970.
For many years after the war, Rose never spoke of the operation until it was declassified in 1998.
The photograph is from Captain Rose’s Hall of Heroes induction ceremony
From the Kiplinger Magazine website
You get about two months to shop. The window opens October 15 and closes December 7. During open enrollment, beneficiaries can choose to switch Part D prescription-drug plans; switch Advantage plans, which offer health coverage through private insurers; or switch from traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage. New coverage starts January 1, 2018.
Pictured are Richard Kudo and Raymond Choi, two of the simulator technicians in the 154th Wing. Both worked hard to tweak the simulator to insure the aircrew experienced the many facets – common and emergency – of flying a complex aircraft.
Both Richard and Ray retired after many years of service in the Hawaii Air National Guard.
Update: It’s Raymond Choi vice Raymond Kaneshiro. Thanks to Stan Lum for the correction.
