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From the Images of Old Hawaii website
‘Bud’ Mars brought the first airplane to Hawaiʻi and on December 31, 1910 staged an exhibition flight at Moanalua Park. Some 3,000 persons paid a dollar each to watch the flight which cost the promoter, EH Lewis, some $5,000. (Mitchell)
When Mars brought the biplane ‘Skylark’ to Honolulu and managed to get it into the air long enough to make several short exhibition flights from Moanalua Polo Field, the die was cast for Hawaii’s interest in and use of aircraft.
“Spectacular as these flights were, at the same time island men were going ahead in a quiet manner, laying the foundation for commercial aviation here.”
Make plans to help your neighbors is one way to get to help your community in disasters. Start by introducing yourself to your neighbors.
A retirement ceremony for CMSgt Douglas Awana was held on Friday, January 6, 2017. The Chief began his began his military career in March 1975 and retired with 41 years of service to his country and state. Congratulations to Chief Awana!
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The service chose Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, for the first Air Force Reserve-led F-35 base. Three other bases were named as possible alternates if a problem arises during the environmental impact process: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida; and Whiteman AFB, Missouri. That environmental analysis must be completed before service officials formally announce a final decision.
Early Tuesday morning, Anna Brittain got a text from her sister: Did she know about Familytreenow.com? The relatively unknown site, which presents itself as a free genealogy resource, seemed to know an awful lot about her.
“The site listed my 3- and 5-year-olds as ‘possible associates,’ ” Brittain, a 30-year-old young-adult fiction writer in Birmingham, Ala., told The Washington Post on Tuesday. Her sister, a social worker who works at a child advocacy center, found the site while doing a regular Internet footprint checkup on herself. “Given the danger level of my sister’s occupation,” Brittain added, the depth of information available on the genealogy site “scared me to death.”
Colonel John York, commander,154th Ops Group presents the 154th Operations Support Squadron guidon to Lt. Col. Troy Cullen during Cullen’s assumption of command ceremony held at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, January 7, 2017.
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Call it the sound of your life force — that “lup dub lup dub” beat your healthy heart makes, resounding like rhythmic, repetitive pounding on a drum. When those notes stray off beat or tone, a trained ear can tell that something’s amiss with your health.
A heart murmur may be diagnosed as benign — harmless — or it may need more attention. Just ask Summer Ash, now 38, an astrophysicist who is the director of outreach for Columbia University’s Department of Astronomy in New York City. During a routine physical exam when she was in college, her physician heard a heart murmur and referred Ash for an echocardiogram. The test results indicated that her murmur was nothing to worry about.
From the Military.com website
Military life is hard work. So when the work day is done, it’s a nice break for the members of our military community – whether currently serving or veterans — to head out on the town with family or friends to see a concert or catch a ball game. Events like this are a great way to spend much-needed time with family or re-integrate after a deployment.
Unfortunately, tickets to these events aren’t cheap.
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From the Military.com website
Driver’s licenses from five additional states will no longer be accepted as official forms of identification for gaining access to military bases DoD-wide starting Jan. 30, officials said.
Those holding non-enhanced drivers’ licenses issued by Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Pennsylvania and South Carolina will join those from Washington, Minnesota and Missouri in no longer being able to enter federal facilities using their state IDs as their primary form of identification, Defense Department officials confirmed.
All honorably discharged military members could have access to online exchange shopping by Veterans Day, according to Defense Department documents obtained by Military Times. If the proposal becomes reality, it would greatly expand the customer base for the online service of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.
Currently, only active-component service members, National Guard and Reserve members, along with family members, and 100-percent disabled veterans can shop at the exchanges, both online and at the stores.
But anyone who leaves the armed forces before reaching retirement is unable to shop. If the proposal is approved, those people would be able to shop online, but not at the brick-and-mortar stores.
The idea to expand online access was first discussed in 2014 by Tom Shull, who was the AAFES chief executive officer. AAFES officials say it would provide more than $50 million in profits, which are returned to military communities in many ways.
Military Times notes that if Pentagon officials agree to the plan and Congress does not object within 30 days, the new policy could be in place by Veterans Day.
Senior Airman Chase Maglangit and Supervisor Trebor Kang
KAPOLEI, Hawai‘i – Trebor Kang, Par Hawaii Refining supervisor, was presented with a Patriot Award Dec. 7, by Bob McKaig, volunteer for the Hawai‘i Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, in recognition of awesome support provided to an Air National Guard airman.
Kang was nominated for being highly supportive of the National Guard by his employee Chase Maglangit, Senior Airman, 154th Maintenance Squadron, Hawai‘i Air National Guard.
The January issue of the Kūkā‘ilimoku, the newsletter of the 154th Wing features:
+ HIANG to conduct Sentry Aloha
+ Island Sentinelh
+ Family Ties – the Souza and Faurot Ohanas
+ plus more
The 154th Wing Public Affairs Office staff continues to produce a world-class publication. The staff includes:
2d Lt Justin Leong
2d Lt Shaun Kawakami
TSgt Alison Bruce-Maldonado
SrA Orlando Corpuz
A1C Robert Cabuco
A1C Stan Pak
The Air Force announced new policies on dress and appearance with regard to tattoos, as well as changes to service medical accession policy January 9.
These changes result from a review of Air Force accessions policies directed by Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James in 2016.
“As part of our effort to attract and retain as many qualified Airmen as possible we periodically review our accessions policies,” she said. “In this instance, we identified specific changes we can make to allow more members of our nation to serve without compromising quality. As a next step in this evolution, we are opening the aperture on certain medical accession criteria and tattoos while taking into account our needs for worldwide deployability and our commitment to the profession of arms.”
