Many Hawai‘i National Guard retirees still refer to the Guard headquarters on Diamond Head Road as Fort Ruger. Many of the young Guard members do not know the history about the Fort Ruger area and its part in Hawaiian history.
Two of the Fort Ruger gateposts still remain and define some the Fort Ruger area. Two rock wall gateposts remain where Monsarrat Avenue transitions into Diamond Head Road. The guard post often has graffiti in spite of community clean up efforts. The other gatepost is at the entrance to the Hawai‘i National Guard headquarters
Click the photographs to enlarge. All photographs by Joel Bradshaw. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.
The Fort Ruger story and more photographs from Peter Young’s Facebook page
More on Fort Ruger: http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Ruger
Come January, some military retirees are sure to ask why they haven’t seen an annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in first-of-year paychecks.
About the same time, some active duty members will grumble that their annual pay raise has been capped again, this time at 1.3 percent, on the heels of record-low one percent pay hikes in both 2014 and 2015.
That’s also when some military folks might begin to wonder whose paydays have been pinched harder lately, service members or retirees?
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State DOD Team,
It’s a great day and month to be in the State Department of Defense, Hawaii National Guard.
We just congratulated BG Kenneth Hara, and now we have another brigadier general in the Hawaii National Guard. His promotion day was October 15, 2015.
COL Suzanne Vares-Lum will be our newest Brigadier General effective October 28, 2015. Suzy is being promoted and assigned to the United States Pacific Command (PACOM) J5 Mobility Assistant.
Please express your congratulations to both new generals.
MG Arthur “Joe” Logan, Adjutant General
Mayor’s Veterans Day Ceremony
– When: Wednesday, November 11, 1015 – Time: 0830 – Where: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl)
Governor’s Memorial Day Ceremony
– When: Wednesday, November 11, 1015 – Time: 1300, with the prelude starting at 1245 – Where: Hawaii State Veterans CemeteryYou can register to receive an email every time there is a new post. In the “Follow Blog via Email” section and press “Follow”. On the next screen, enter your email address and press ENTER. Shortly, you will receive a confirmation email to your address from WordPress.com. You acknowledge the email and you are a registered reader.
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From the This Day in Aviation website
October 1979: The 5,057th and very last Phantom II—an F-4E-67-MC, serial number 78-0744—was rolled out at the McDonnell Douglas Corporation plant, Lambert Field (STL), St. Louis, Missouri, and the production line was closed.
Coca-Cola is everywhere. The iconic American brand is recognized instantly around the globe and sold in more than 200 countries. Altogether, more than 10,000 soft drinks from Coca-Cola are consumed every second of every day. You’ll be familiar with brands like Diet Coke, Sprite, and Fanta — but here’s some facts about Coca-Cola you might not have heard before.
From the This Day in Aviation website
24 October 1953: At Edwards Air Force Base, California, Convair’s Chief Test Pilot Richard Lowe Johnson took the first prototype YF-102 Delta Dagger, serial number 52-7994, for its first flight. Dick Johnson was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and a leading military test pilot.
The YF-102 was a delta-wing interceptor developed from the earlier experimental Convair XF-92 Dart. It was designed as an all-weather, missile-armed, Mach 2 fighter. The single-seat, single-engine fighter was powered by an interim Pratt and Whitney J57-P-11 afterburning turbojet engine, which was rated at 10,900 pounds of thrust, or 14,500 pounds with afterburner.
David Rogojo Rodrigues, 51, of Waianae, a Honolulu Board of Water Supply employee and a Hawaii Air National Guard veteran, will be remembered in services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mililani Downtown Mortuary. He passed away on September 29, 2015. He was born in Honolulu.
He is survived by daughters Raven and Dallas, mother Sarah, sisters Carleita M. Rodrigues-Brown and Noreen Rodrigues, companion Michelle Bradley and a grandchild.
Visitation: 9 a.m. Tuesday at the mortuary. Burial: 1:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire. No flowers.
Toni Cook, franchisee/operator of the local Great Clips shared this with the Office of Veterans Services, who in turn shared it with Retiree News.
Great Clips is proud to offer a free haircut to all active and retired Veterans on November 11, 2015 at all our locations across the country. With two locations open here in Hawaii we hope to thank as many service members as possible. We will be open from 9:00am to 9:00pm that day.
Moanalua Shopping Center 930 Valkenburgh Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 Telephone: 808-840-0195 Kapolei Village Center 4850 Kapolei Parkway Kapolei, Hawaii 96707 Telephone: 808-200-5074Service members should go to http://www.greatclips.com/online-check-in to check in online.
In addition all paying civilians will receive a free haircut card to gift to a service member to share in our gratitude.
Soon more information about this amazing day can be found on http://www.greatclips.com/promotions.
Ten years ago….
+ Peter “Skipper” Pawling promoted
+ 154th Logistics Readiness Squadron airmen return from Iraq
+ HIANG CERF-P receives the highest rating
The January 2005 issue of the 154th Wing’s newsletter, the Kūkā‘ilimoku, featured these stories and more.
Read more January 2005 Kūkā‘ilimoku
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