Film of Japanese Attacking Pearl Harbor
Japanse footage and US footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States’ entry into World War II.The Day the World Changed Forever
The Attack on Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941 — The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning) and the Battle of Pearl Harbor) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.Jarrett Alan Needham Sr., 62, of Wai‘anae, a Hawai‘i Army National Guard retiree, passed away on November 12, 2014. He was born in Honolulu.
He is survived by son Jarrett A. Jr.; daughters Malia K. Dean and Kawela I Kai M.; brothers William, Joseph and Guy; sisters Beverly Mclaney and Debbie Alvarez; and eight grandchildren. Private services.
John Nehemia Kaina Jr., 49, of Kāne‘ohe, a retired Hawai‘i Army National Guard sergeant and a Star Com Construction Co. painter, passed away on November 27, 2014. He was born in Honolulu.
He is survived by hanai daughter Maka, hanai son Alii, mother Barbara, sister Jonnetta Peters and hanai brother Randy Lum.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Airmen from the 15th and 154th Wings at Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, exercised the newest approach to fighter employment Nov. 20-24 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
Rapid Raptor, which is still in the proof-of-concept phase, uses at least one C-17 to swiftly move, refuel and rearm a minimum of four F-22s in unfamiliar, austere environments.
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They sound plausible enough, often including just enough truth to make their unexpected twists or alarming implications seem real. So they’re shared with friends and family, across the Web and on social media by people who believe them. We’re talking urban myths, and the realm of personal finance certainly has its share.
Market forces are dramatically driving up the cost of some generic drugs, prompting U.S. investigations into the pricing of what should be cheap alternatives to brand-name medications.
Cyber Monday is a good time to shop online for bargains on holiday gifts, but it is far from the only day of the year when Web shoppers can score big. Although many online retailers offer deep discounts the Monday following Thanksgiving, savvy consumers know that sale prices are just the tip of the iceberg.
John Damien Kamakaokalani Worthington, 54, of ‘Ewa, an O‘ahu Transit Services planner analyst, passed away at Hospice Hawai‘i Kailua Home on October 5, 2014. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Kwang Chi, sons John D.K. Jr. and James R., parents John D. and Agnes Genny, sisters Edwina Tupinio and Starlyn N. Worthington, and three grandchildren.
Mahalo to Anson Kimura, who identified John Worthington as a Hawai‘i Army National Guard retiree.
Anson added that Worthington served with the 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery and was the Battery A commander from about 1988-1991. He medically retired because of health issues.
Lawmakers have agreed to cut commissary funding by $100 million next year compared with this year, according to a new agreement on a compromise defense authorization bill.
Defense officials had proposed cutting $200 million from the Defense Commissary Agency budget that funds about 245 stores on military installations around the world, part of a three-year plan that would bring the annual commissary budget down from about $1.3 billion to $400 million.
To make gift giving easier, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is extending its return policy for items purchased from November 1 to December 24, 2014. The Exchange’s standard policy allows returns anywhere from up to 15 to 90 days of purchase with a sales receipt. The holiday return/exchange policy extends these terms through January 31, 2015. Refunds with sales receipts are processed as forms of payment (cash for cash, credit for credit card). Refunds without sales receipts receive an Exchange gift card. Shoppers can also return items purchased through shopmyexchange.com at their closest brick-and-mortar Exchange.
For more information about the extended refund policy, shoppers can visit customer service at their nearest Exchange.
For more discounts for military families, visit the Military.com Discount Center.
This article taken from the December 3, 2014, issue of Daily Report, an e-newsletter of the Air Force Association.
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) gathered Tuesday to discuss the 2014 National Defense Panel’s assessment of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Outgoing HASC Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-California) has been critical of the QDR itself, but praised the NDP’s assessment as being “an excellent report” during his opening remarks. McKeon has blasted the review as being too political and not solution-oriented enough. In their remarks before the committee Tuesday, former undersecretaries of defense for policy Michele Flournoy and Eric Edelman, both members of the NDP, focused heavily on the detrimental effects of the Budget Control Act of 2011, calling it a ‘”serious strategic mishap’ that has dangerously tied the hands of the Pentagon leadership.”
“Sequestration, in our view, is a national security issue,” Flournoy said. “I would call it a threat to national security.” Referencing “Air Force pilots unable to fly sufficient hours to keep up their skills” among a list of things contributing to a “readiness crisis within our armed forces,” the two urged “Congress and the President [to] repeal the Budget Control Act immediately” and return at least to 2012-level defense spending proposals. “Sequestration obviously had a devastating impact on the defense budget, … but if you go back four years and look at what we were planning to spend on defense, we’re not even close,” said Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington).
The November 2114 edition of National Guard is availabe online
Features:
Not So LameOften derided as the ‘lame duck’ session, the final weeks of the 113th Congress could change the Guard’s way forward. By Ron Jensen
Going Where People Can’tDefense scientists are pushing the development of new robots that could be a game-changer in CBRNE response. By Rebecca Autrey
A Degree of SeparationFour years of college was once the way to get and stay ahead. Not anymore. That’s why many Guardsmen are back in school. By William Matthews
The National Guard Association of the United States One Massachusetts Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20001 | www.ngaus.org P: 202.789.0031 | F: 202.682.9358 | newsletter@ngaus.orgPacific Fleet Band will play at Ewa Field Commemoration December 6, 2014. The links below have additional information on this annual event at former MCAS Ewa – Barbers Point. We are also having a fly-over by the US Coast Guard Barbers Point.
http://www.cpf.navy.mil/cpfband/http://ewa-battlefield-nomination.blogspot.com/2014/11/2014-ewa-field-commemoration-location.html
Please arrive by 9 AM Saturday and ceremony will start at 9:30 AM. Here are the directions to get there:
– From Honolulu take H-1 freeway and get off at the EWA EXIT. – Continue down Fort Weaver Rd and turn right, just past the Zippy’s at the Historic Ewa Plantation Villages sign onto Renton Road. – Continue all the way down Renton Road, through the four way stoplight and the road nearly ends where you will turn left over narrow gauge railway tracks by the Ewa Hawaiian Railway Society Museum. – Continue a short distance and make a right onto Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue. Continue about 200 yards and on your left will be Pride Baseball Field and five large WW-II Quonset huts. Turn left there.
Click this link to see a 360 view right by the five warehouse Quonset Huts and Pride Baseball Field. http://goo.gl/maps/4eDny. The closest street address is this: 4364 Roosevelt Ave, Kapolei, HI 96707
John Bond 2013 Ewa Field Battlefield Commemoration ewabond@gmail.com
Ashton Carter, the man who served as deputy defense secretary for both Leon Panetta and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, will be nominated to take the top spot, according to a news report this morning.
CNN broke the news, quoting several administration officials.
Hagel resigned last week but is staying on until his successor is confirmed. Several names surfaced just after Hagel’s resignation, but a few of those people, including Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, and Michelle Flournoy, a former Pentagon official in Obama’s first term, took their names out of consideration.
Carter’s recent experience in the Pentagon would be an advantage. He is said to be adept at managing large budgets, which the Defense Department certainly has, although it is shrinking. However, he has never served in the military, which some could see as a drawback.
Profile: Ashton Carter http://ow.ly/Fga3t
