From the Medical News Today website
Today, an estimated 5.8 million people aged 65 years or older in the United States have dementia.
Due to the fact that the average lifespan of people in the U.S. has increased over recent decades, some experts project that by 2050, the number of older adults with dementia could reach 13.8 million.
Figures of this stature spark justifiable fear, and, as we have found in previous Medical Myths articles, fear tends to breed misconceptions.
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On November 4, 2016, Brig. Gen. Ryan Okahara, Commander, Hawaii Air National Guard, hosted the promotion ceremony for Brett “Doogie” Wyrick.
For the photograph from left to right:
Lt Col Marlon Rimando – flight surgeon
Lt Col James Faumuina, former 154th Medial Group, Detachment 1 commander. James retires this month after a long HIANG career.
Brig. Gen. Brett “Doogie” Wyrick
CMSgt Dawn Wahinekapu, 154th Medial Group Senior Health Technician
MSgt (now Lt) Gloria Lafitaga, was an Aerospace Medical Service Specialist in the picture. She was commissioned and now serves as a Public Health Officer/ International Health Specialist
MSgt (now SMSgt) Jared Mina, 154th Medial Group
Doogie served in the HIANG from November 1995 to December 2008 in various medical billets. After leaving the HIANG, he served in a series of positions with the Air National Guard and the National Guard Bureau. He returned in July 2016 as the Hawaii’s Assistant Adjutant General, Air.
In May 2017, he left to become the Assistant to the Command Surgeon, Air Combat Command (ACC/SG), Langley AFB, Virginia. Earlier this year, Doogie was promoted to major general, shortly after his assignment as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Surgeon General, United States Air Force, Pentagon, D.C.
In civilian life, Dr. Wyrick currently serves full time as the Federal Aviation Administration’s Regional Flight Surgeon for the Northwest Mountain Region. He provides medical supervision to approximately 300 Aviation Medical examiners in the region: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. He serves as the Federal Air Surgeon’s delegated waiver authority on all classes of aviation medical certificates and air traffic controller fitness for duty determinations in the United States of America.
More photographs from this promotion ceremony
Special Thanks to Erik Wong for providing background information for this post.
From the Air Force Times website
The Air Force has finalized more than two dozen updates to its rules governing how airmen should dress and act in uniform, from making pantyhose optional to letting men grow their hair out a little longer.
The December 3 update erases some of the minutia that defines military life: dictating where an airman’s hands should be when they walk, whether their workout clothes should be tucked in, and even whether they are allowed to talk on the phone while walking. Officials argue that doing away with requirements that don’t affect airmen’s ability to do their jobs will help the force focus on the work that matters.
Thanks to Gordon Lau for sharing this article
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 an e-newsletter today.
Today we feature the December 1963 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 1963 Year in Review
* Sports News
Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane.
On August 8, 2016, 204th Airlfit Squadron retirees gathered for a small get together. Among the retirees were (L-R): Patrick Oka, Gerald Mansell, Ramona Fujimoto, and Phillip Tokunaga.
Caregivers are America’s invisible helpers, giving up everything — often their jobs, retirement savings, even their own health — to care for an ailing or incapacitated family member. A MetLife study found that the average caregiver sacrificed more than $300,000 in lifetime earnings from lost wages, retirement benefits and Social Security. Self-neglect is practically a requirement. “We make sure our loved ones get all the medications and nutrition they need, but often, late at night, we’re the ones going through the drive-thru for dinner,” says Gary Barg, editor of Today’s Caregiver magazine, who along with his siblings cares for his aging mother.
Most caregivers cobble together extra help from other family members, along with paid services like home health aides, and some get help from community services like Meals on Wheels. Once predominantly women, today’s family caregivers are almost equally split, with 55% women and 45% men, Barg says, and they’re not a young group. The average family caregiver is 49 years old, and about a third are 65 and older, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance, a national organization that supports caregivers. Like Perlstein who is raising his now 13-year-old daughter, many caregivers also care for more than one person. Their unpaid labor doesn’t just benefit their families but an entire nation. Or as Barg puts it: “If every family caregiver decided tomorrow to go on a cruise for a year, somehow the system would have to come up with $357 billion to replace what we do out of love.”
From the Star and Stripes website
A federal jury on Friday awarded $22.5 million to an Army veteran in a lawsuit claiming earplug manufacturer 3M’s military-issued product caused damage to his hearing. It was the eighth such case to reach a verdict and involved the largest amount of damages to date.
Theodore Finley filed a lawsuit under Texas law against 3M in January 2020 that stated he used the company’s combat arms earplug version 2 during his service from 2006 to 2014. He now suffers from noise-induced hearing loss and bilateral tinnitus, or a ringing in the ears.
Related Retiree News posts:
Hundreds of vets are suing over these defective combat earplugs
3M hit with $6M punitive damages by US jury in first combat earplug trial
From the Medical News Today website
Seaweed grows in or near salty waters. There are several types, and they generally contain many minerals that are easy for the body to break down. Adding seaweed to the diet may help with thyroid function, digestive health, and weight loss.
Types of seaweed include:
Nori
Kelp
Wakame
Kombu
Dulse
Blue-green algae, such as spirulina and chlorella
This variety can make it easy for people to incorporate seaweed into different recipes. However, it is possible to eat too much seaweed, and some individuals should avoid it.
15 December 2006: Lockheed Martin Chief Test Pilot Jon S. Beesely takes the first prototype F-35A Lightning II stealth strike fighter for its first test flight at Forth Worth, Texas. Taking off at 12:44 p.m., Central Standard Time (18:44 UTC), Beesley took the prototype, designated AA-1, to 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) at 225 knots (259 miles per hour/417 kilometers per hour) to test the aircraft in landing configuration prior to continuing with other tests.
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page
Recently, Detachment 175 Air Force ROTC – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa cadets visited Hickam Field to learn about how the 15th Wing and the Hawaii Air National Guard support the United States Air Force’s mission here in the Indo-Pacific.
Like so many leaders who found their roots within the Air Force ROTC program, this is often the place where legendary careers begin.
Cadets were briefed about the C-17 and KC-135 Stratotanker operations and attended an officer panel that talked about several career fields as well as day-to-day life in the Air Force.
It’s always a pleasure to spend time with motivated cadets who are interested in discovering more about Team Hickam’s Total Force Mission.
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 December 1979 Kūkā‘ilimoku issue. This issue includes the following stories:
* 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron named outstanding unit
* 154th Resourse Managemen Squadron roundup
* Sports News
From the Everyday Health website
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, which according to the Cleveland Clinic is one of the metabolic disorders characterized by blood sugar (glucose) that’s too high, you may be wondering if you have a chance of being cured.
While there is no cure for any type of diabetes per se, you may be able to reverse course and return your blood sugar back to a healthy level. This is called remission.
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