Travel Channel enlisted a panel of experts to help determine the 10 best amusement and water parks for 2015. Find out which parks and heart-pumping new rides they recommend this year
A for-profit college company with 15 campuses in California was ordered by the state Friday to stop enrolling new or returning students who plan to fund their educations with GI Bill benefits.
The order to ITT Educational Services came in a suspension notice issued by a division of the California Department of Veterans Affairs that sanctions training programs to serve veterans.
Brigadier General James Carpenter retired as the Commander of the Hawai‘i Army National Guard in early 2002.
Taken from the May 28, 2015 issue of Midweek.
Retired UH Professor Gives Back
Photograph from University of Hawai‘i Foundation
Retired UH-Manoa professor Jim Carpenter and wife Jeanne sign their gift agreement to create a $75,000 endowed scholarship at University of Hawai‘i, Hilo and University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. The scholarship fund will assist full-time undergraduate students pursuing a degree at the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management with a pre-veterinary medicine or livestock production specialty in animal science or aquaculture.
Related: BG James Carpenter biography
Contributing editor Stephen Lum provided the background information for this post
Taken from The D Brief, a daily e-newsletter of Defense One
Less than five years ago, the X-37B became the first U.S. spacecraft to land on a runway autonomously. Now, as before, few know what its mission actually is.
We’ve compiled a list of top military discounts for amusement parks across the country – Cedar Point, Colonial Williamsburg, Crayola Experience, Dollywod, Kind’s Dominion, Kind’s Island, Knoebel’s, Ledgoland, Morgan’s Wonderland, Schlitterbahn Waterpark, Sea World, Six Flags, Universal Studios and Wet’n Wild.
Brig Gen Joseph Kim emailed Retiree News, to pass on information about Sandy Hoggan’s services.
The funeral will be on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, starting at 1715, at the Mililani Mortuary Park & Mortuary.
Additional information will be in the obituary, usually posted about 3-4 days prior to the date of the service.
San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in the state of Texas. There are many military installations near San Antonio, including Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base and Randolph Air Force Base.
Whether you’re stationed in the San Antonio area or just visiting, there are lots of family-friendly military discounts to use while you’re there.
Not long after Kathleen Jasper first got a computer back in 1998 and started using email, the Estherville, Iowa grandmother’s family warned her: don’t open messages from strangers, and don’t fall for scams asking for money.
Jasper, 74, took their advice to heart. That’s why when she got an innocent-looking email not long ago asking if she could help someone out of a jam by wiring money overseas she rightly guessed it was a hoax and didn’t respond. “Those are the ones I’m sure to delete,” Jasper says.
Smart lady. Although not all seniors follow in her footsteps. One of the biggest mistakes seniors make online is being too trusting. It’s a generational thing, says Jeri Sedlar, author of Don’t Retire, REWIRE and a consultant on older Americans in the workforce for The Conference Board.
When it comes to protecting yourself online, the best defense is a good offense, Sedlar says. Whether you’re using email, surfing the Internet, or using other online services for work or just for fun, be cautious.
Taken from The D Brief, a daily e-newsletter of Defense One
And Defense One’s Kedar Pavgi shares this wonky weapons brow-raiser: The son of the famed SR-71 Blackbird could be the Mach 6 flying, bomb dropping and spying machine of the future, according to Popular Science. “Aeronautical engineers at Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne have been designing the SR-72 at their Skunk Works black site in California for the past several years…It could reach any location on any continent in an hour—not that you’ll see it coming.”
More on that one here
The May issue of Hawai‘i Veteran, the newsletter of the Office of Veterans Services, is out.
Could your choice of shampoo or cookware be harming your health?
Watch our for these dangerous and hidden chemicals in your home
Robert Lawrence Cookman, 62, of Kamuela, Hawaii, a stevedore for McCabe Hamilton & Renny and Matson Navigation, and a veteran of the Army and Army National Guard, passed away in Kamuela on May 11, 2015. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Alita-Ray; sons No’eau, O’liko and Kamahoi; father Frances Earl Smith; brother Taylor Smith; sisters Laurie and Joanna Smith; and 12 grandchildren. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Nuuanu Memorial Park & Mortuary. Services: 11 a.m. Scattering of ashes: 9 a.m. June 6 at LST Kawaihae. Celebration of life: 11 a.m. at Hale Laiana, on the grounds of Imiola Church. Casual attire. Lei and loose flowers welcome.
Promotion
Congratulations to Erik Wong, who received his Federal Recognition to colonel on May 22, 2015. Erik is currently assigned militarily to the 154th Medical Group, and works at Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard as operations training officer, a state position.
A well deserved promotion for Erik. His promotion ceremony will probably be during the July UTA weekend.
Administrative stuff
The Air Reserve Personnel Center ARPC) sends a Notification of Eligibility for Retired Pay at Age 60 to all eligible members about six months prior to the start of you receiving retirement payments. This letter will list all accumulated points used to calculate your retirement pay.
This notification letter is sent to your mailing address in personnel system. If you have changed your address after you retired from the Guard, you need to update your mailing address.
Please contact POC: ARPC/DPPKB at 1-800-525-0102 or by mail:
HQ ARPC/DPPR
6760 E. Irvington Place
Denver, CO 80280-1900
State Tax Deduction
The 2015 deduction for National Guard pay when filing State of Hawaii tax returns next year will be $6,198.00. This tax deduction applies to Guard members still serving. It is quite a bit larger than the $1750.00 total we had for many years.
With the leadership of then State Representative K. Mark Takai and others, the state legislature increased the amount. In fact, the annual amount is calculated on the annual earnings of an E-5 with eight years’ service, based on 48 training periods and 15 days of active duty.
Along with the vehicle weight tax exemption, Hawaii Guard members have increased their state benefit package overs the last few years.
SMSgt Palbo retirement party
SMSgt Ted Pablo, 169th Air Defense Squadron, will retire from the Hawaii Air National Guard with over 38 years of service.
For more information and to sign up for the celebration at the Kapolei Gold Club, go to http://wp.me/p3639O-2WO
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