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Back row (L-R): Douglas Hill, Joycelin Matsuda, Jacqueline Jakahi, Patrick Bailon, Teofilo “Fil” Mauricio, David “Mac” McCulloch.
Front row: (L-R): Galen Nakahara, Jason Uota.
These hard working personnel were the support staff of the Headquarters, 201st Combat Communications Group. They were a great team.
Jackie, Mac, Galen and Jason all retired from their fulltime positions. Doug, Pat, and Teo served for 20+ military years and retired. Joycelin, a lawyer in a one person practice, left after a few years.
From The New York Times website
It was the sort of incident that happens at facilities that care for people with dementia.
At a residence for older adults in San Francisco last summer, Carol King momentarily left a common sitting area. When Ms. King returned, she found that another resident had taken her chair, a nurse who witnessed the episode later reported. She grabbed the usurper’s wrist.
Though staff members intervened promptly and nobody appeared injured, the other resident (who also had dementia) called 911 to say she had been attacked. Soon, Ms. King’s son, Geoffrey, was summoned and four police officers arrived.
27 July 1972: McDonnell Douglas Chief Experimental Test Pilot Irving L. Burrows made the first flight of the prototype YF-15A-1-MC Eagle, 71-0280, at Edwards AFB, California.
Kiyoshi Koge, 91, of Pearl City, passed away on July 10, 2017. Born in Hilo, he was a retired Hawaii Air National Guard Senior Master Sergeant.
He is survived by is wife, Frances; son, Kerwin; daughters, Joanne (Dennis) Urasaki and Suzanne (Dana) Crouse; grandson, Andrew Crouse; brothers, Masanobu, Kazuo and Harry (Cindy) Koge; sisters, Sueko (Gabriel) Palma and Janet (Thomas) Nakasone.
Everyone in Hawaii has hiked the Koko Head Crater trail at least once. It is a steep trek that separates the fit and unfit.
But what are the tracks going up the side of the crater?
The Hawaii Air National Guard operated a radar station on the top of the crater. It was part of Hawaii’s air defense system that still provides 24/7 coverage. Personnel and supplies were transported up the side of the crater on a tram run on those tracks. The 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron (now the 169th Air Defense Squadron) relocated to the then Wheeler Air Force Base on July 1, 1965.
From the Military Times website
Nearly half a year into his job, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is still trying to convince critics that his efforts to improve the department won’t lead to privatizing care and support programs for veterans.
In an editorial in USA Today Monday morning, Shulkin — the only holdover of former President Barack Obama’s administration to President Donald Trump’s Cabinet — called lingering fears of VA privatization “unfounded” and stated again that “we will not allow VA to be privatized on our watch.”
From the everyday Health website
Exercise is clearly a key to fitness. But what hasn’t been clear is whether the intensity of your workouts mattered.
Researchers now think they have the answer: Exercising vigorously makes a positive difference.
From the Honolulu Magazine website
The Waialae Drive-In Theatre building where a woman encountered a faceless girl in the restroom
For generations, spooky stories about creepy public bathrooms or hitchhiking spirits have been swapped around hibachis and water coolers. Some are rooted in Hawaiian history; others are urban legends. And still others are so deeply personal, it’s almost impossible to dismiss them.
From The New York Times website
At any given moment, there is a large group of citizens who want nothing more than to make absolutely certain that they are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid sooner rather than later. Someday, you might be one of them.
Welcome to the (perfectly legal) world of Medicaid planning, the plain-vanilla term for the mini-industry of lawyers and others who help people arrange their financial lives so they don’t spend every last dime on a nursing home. Once properly impoverished under the law, then Medicaid, which gets funding both from your state and the federal government, picks up the tab.
From the everyday Health website
A nutrient in meat and eggs may conspire with gut bacteria to make the blood more prone to clotting, a small study suggests.
The nutrient is called choline. Researchers found that when they gave 18 healthy volunteers choline supplements, it boosted their production of a chemical called TMAO.
Live Fire at Kahuku – Artist: Jim Dietz, 1966
With the onset of the Cold War and the threat of long-range Soviet nuclear bombers, the Guard wrote a new page in its long history of homeland defense. Beginning in 1954, thousands of Army Guardsmen manned antiaircraft artillery positions across the country, adopting for the first time a Federal mission while in a State status. In the late 1950s, the Guard began transitioning from guns to the longer-ranged and more lethal missiles.
For exactly sixteen years, from September 14, 1958 to September 14, 1974, the Army National Guard manned Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules missile batteries in an operational status. At the height of the program in 1969, seventeen states (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin) provided more than 7,000 soldiers to man 54 missile batteries around sixteen key metropolitan areas.
The Hawaii National Guard’s 298th Artillery Group was the first National Guard unit to adopt the Nike-Hercules missile, becoming operational on-site in early 1960. Hawaii was also the only state to man all of its firing batteries with Guardsmen; in the continental United States the Guard manned about a third of all Nike sites. While the rest of the Nike force conducted its annual practices at McGregor Guided Missile Range in New Mexico, the Hawaii Guard was unique in that it conducted its annual live-fire certifications from mobile launchers firing off the north shore of the island of Oahu. It was during just such a live-fire that Battery B, 1st Missile Battalion, 298th Artillery Group recorded the longest successful Nike-Hercules missile intercept of a target.
The advent of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles led to major cutbacks in the Nike program in 1971 and its termination in 1974. Though no missile was ever fired in anger, the duty encompassed a 24 hour watch, 365 days a year, and thousands of alerts. Guardsmen had demonstrated their ability to conduct real-world missions while in a part-time, state-controlled status, in the process proudly adopting for themselves the title “Missile-Age Minutemen.”
Read more in the article: HIARNG Guard Nike Hercules Mission
John D. Bennett is the author of the attached article. He is a retired Honolulu Police Officer. He served in the Air Force from 1957 to 1961 as a radar operator in Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. Bennett has been a member of the Coast Defense Study Group for over 15 years, He has authored over 40 articles published in the quarterly journal, mainly reporting on Hawaii’s coast artillery history, World War II garrisons of U.S. Pacific Island possessions, including airfields.
From the Food Republic website
The mind is a strange and funny place. Our brains can trick us into thinking that eating from a smaller plate will fill us up faster or that the color blue makes foods taste saltier. Experimental psychologist Charles Spence dedicates his work to discovering how all our senses affect our sense of taste.
His latest book, Gastrophysics, delves into his findings. In this excerpted section, Spence explores why blue wine may not be a good idea, why orange mouthwash doesn’t seem as effective and what the color red tastes like.
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Las Vegas hosts some of the best places to eat a steak, and not every single one of those establishments is located on Las Vegas Boulevard, though most of them are.
Here, a look at 25 of the best places to eat a steak in Las Vegas, along with what to order at each
