The secrets to a long and healthy life are often thought to be diet and exercise. But you might also want to add travel to that list.
Many Hawai‘i medical clinics, hospitals, and individual doctors have your medical records online for your review. Some offer email contact with doctors, with the opportunity to post pictures of your medical condition like a rash or sore. If your doctor offers this service, you need to get online to check what information they have in your electronic file.
Too few American seniors go online to check their health records, a new study suggests.
Many doctors offer patients online access to certain parts of their electronic medical records, including immunization records, lab results, safe and correct use of medications and reminders for visits and screenings.
However, this study suggests that older Americans are being left behind when it comes to the benefits of electronic medical records.
Now-retired two-star general misused a government-owned vehicle when she traveled between home and work at the National Reconnaissance Office dozens of times between September 2011 and February 2013, a Defense Department Inspector General report found.
Maj. Gen. Susan Mashiko, who was deputy director of the office in Chantilly, Virginia, also inappropriately used a government vehicle for trips to and from airports in and around Washington, D.C., according to the 23-page report released Monday.
The long-delayed Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act failed to pass in the Senate, and departing Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is the man to blame. Veterans are not likely to forget it.
It is doubtful that any single senator of the post-9/11 era has managed to piss off as many veterans as Tom Coburn has over the last week.
The Republican Senator from Oklahoma, known as “Dr. No” by some of his colleagues for his opposition to federal spending, has likely derailed any chance of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act being passed this year, leaving it to be taken up by the next Congress.
On Friday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, will launch a giant drone-hunting blimp over Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds just east of Washington D.C. The system includes a 242-foot balloon (technically called an aerostat because it’s connected to the ground) that can stay up for a month at a time and a radar to detect — among other potential threats— drones.
The danger posed by unmanned drones over Washington, D.C., has been a concern since 9/11. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration made it illegal fly model planes within ten miles of Reagan National Airport. But as Zeke Miller reports for TIME, the prospect of actually getting caught flying your drone over Washington, D.C., is “doubtful, unless you upload the video to the Internet, crash spectacularly, or get way too close to a really sensitive area like the White House.”
A number of Retiree News readers have asked about the status of the Adjutant General. As you know, the Adjutant General serves as the Director of the Department of Defense; one of the seventeen department leaders the governor appoints.
Governor David Ige has named eight of the seventeen department directors and a few vice directors. As of this posting, the governor has not made an announcement on the adjutant general.
Retiree News will continue to monitor news sources and post any announcement by Governor Ige.
17 December 1903, 10:35 a.m.: Orville and Wilber Wright, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, had been working on the development of a machine capable of flight since 1899. They started with kites and gliders, before moving on to powered aircraft. At the Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first successful flight. Orville was at the controls of the Flyer while Wilbur ran along side, steadying the right wing. The airplane flew 120 feet (36.6 meters) in 12 seconds.
In early 2013, the Pentagon lifted the ban on women serving in U.S. combat units, mandating that the change be put into place by 2016. The lifting of the ban would open up more than 200,000 jobs in the ground-level combat force of the Army and the Marine Corps.
From this order came several approaches to meet the 2016 deadline. The Marine Corps took an aggressive approach and almost immediately opened up its enlisted Infantry Training Course and Infantry Officers Course to women. While the completion rates of these courses among women were minimal, it’s still a pioneering advancement toward the equalization of opportunities for servicemembers in the U.S.
When Kentucky guardsman Eva Slusher returned from her stateside deployment in 2004, she was welcomed home with news that she had lost custody of her daughter.
A decade later, she finally has hope that no service member will ever have to go through that again.
Tucked into this year’s annual defense authorization bill passed by Congress late last week is a provision preventing state judges from using military deployments against troops in child custody cases.
The influential House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday announced six new Republicans would be added to the panel’s roster, including an ex-Navy SEAL and a former A-10 pilot.
The new GOP committee members include: Rep. Sam Graves (Missouri); Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Montana), Rep. Elise Stefanik (New York); Steve Knight (California); and Tom MacArthur (New Jersey).
Martha McSally (Arizona), a former A-10 “Warthog” pilot, would be the sixth panel member if she wins a recount against Rep. Ron Barber (D) in one of the closest watched races in the country. (She was declared the victor after the recount)
Taxpayers, it’s time to sharpen your pencils.
Between uncertain tax breaks and the Affordable Care Act, the end of the year is again bringing a complicated set of tax considerations. The moves you make now will have a decided effect on your tax bill for 2014.
Colonel David Molinaro retired on December 1, 2014, his mandatory separation date (MSD).
Dave joined the Hawai‘i Air National Guard in the early 90s, coming off active duty. His last active duty assignment was with the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Inspector General team.
During his HIANG career, he served as an aircraft maintenance officer, the 154th Logistics Readiness Squadron commander, and the Director of Staff at Headquarters, Hawai‘i Air National Guard. For retirees, Director of Staff is the position formerly known as the Executive Support Staff Officer (ESSO).
Dave is leaving Hawai‘i, and will relocate to the East Coast.
Happy Trails to a valued colleague and a true officer and gentleman!
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Seniors’ wallets are squarely in the crosshairs of financial predators. Financial exploitation runs the gamut from the quaint and quotidian to brazen and breathtaking abuse. Telemarketers sell auto-club memberships to seniors who no longer drive. Caregivers who are asked to help with the banking withdraw cash for themselves. Or an adult child who holds power of attorney drains your retirement savings and pressures you to change your will for his benefit
