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The Adjutant General, Major General Darryll Wong will host a pinning ceremony for Brigadier General Ryan Okahara. Brig Gen Okahara’s tenure as Commander, Hawai‘i Air National Guard was effective July 1, 2014. The specifics follow:
Date: Friday, September 5, 2014
Time: 1200
Where: Governor’s Ceremonial Room, Fifth Floor, Hawaii State Capitol
Reception to follow
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R.S.V.P. to: Mrs. Renee Mosher-Wakumoto By telephone: 808.733-4232 By email: HQHIANG.Specialevents.RSVP@us.af.mil Previous posting deleted to avoid confusion.Lower defense budgets and Active Duty Air Force reductions will mean a greater reliance on the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said. As Air Force leaders conduct a mission-by-mission analysis of what can be moved from the active component to the two reserve components, James said, “We are going to lean forward and place as much as we possibly can in the Guard and Reserve.”
Speaking during a recent visit to Robins AFB, Ga., and the Air Force Reserve Command headquarters there, James, who served as assistant defense secretary for reserve affairs from 1993 to 1998, said, “no one has to convince me” about “the value the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve bring to our Total Force.” James said the increase in the Reserve share of Air Force missions will include further growth in associate units, which have increased from 102 to 124 in recent years, according to a recent release. “I think we need to kick it up a notch and do more,” she said.
James also said the Air Force is seeking changes in laws and policies that would make it easier for airmen to shift from one component to another.
Air Force photo by SSgt. Natasha Stannard
As the Air Force’s top leaders emphasize the importance of the Total Force, the Air Force Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, recently conducted a ceremony that exemplifies that unifying concept. For the first time ever, OTS cadets from the Active Duty component, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve stepped across the “blue line” together to signify their commitment to the Air Force and its core values, according to an August 19 release. A total of 346 airmen stood in formation on July 19 and, when instructed by OTS Commander Col. Scott Lockwood, stepped over the line of glowing blue lights.
These airmen not only represented the three Air Force components, but also the three different OTS programs: Basic Officer Training for Active Duty and Reserve candidates for commissioning; Academy of Military Science commissioning program for Air Guardsmen; and Commissioned Officer Training course for direct-commissioned officers who will serve as judge advocates, medical professionals, or chaplains. The blue-line ceremony is held during the indoctrination phase for every class at OTS, but previously the individual programs conducted it at different times, Maxwell spokeswoman SSgt. Natasha Stannard told Air Force Magazine on August 25.
For the first time ever, Officer Training School cadets, shown here, from the Air Force’s three components recently stepped across the “blue line” during a ceremony at Maxwell AFB, Ala., to signify their commitment to the Air Force, according to an August 19, 2014, release.
Godwin Kwai Tim Chun, 82, of Kaneohe, a retired Granny Goose Foods district manager and a National Guard veteran, passed away on July 20, 2014. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Harune, daughters Debra Chun and Edie Hayashi, brothers Albert and Ernest, sister Winona Ho and two grandchildren.
James Paul Lindsey, 57, of Ewa Beach, a Matson Navigation warehouse man and an Army National Guard veteran, passed away on August 11, 2014 in the Queen’s Medical Center West. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by brothers Pete, Joey and Michael; and sister Eva.
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The pilot was unable to eject and died when the F-15C Eagle fighter jet he was flying crashed in a mountainous area of Virginia, officials
The pilot of an F-15C Eagle fighter jet that crashed into a mountainous region of Virginia Wednesday morning was unable to eject and died in the crash, the Air National Guard said Thursday.
The pilot’s name was not immediately released. Col. James Keefe, commander of the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Mass., said teams were only able to safely reach the remote crash site Thursday afternoon and discovered the pilot’s body in the wreckage.
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Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, the adjutant general of Ohio since January 2011, was elected chair of the NGAUS board of directors at the 136th General Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.
Ashenhurst, the first woman to serve in the position, follows Maj. Gen. Steve Danner, the adjutant general of Missouri, who was elected at the 2012 conference in Reno, Nevada. She enlisted in the Ohio National Guard in 1978.
The delegates at the conference on the shores of Lake Michigan also voted for other board officers and members. Brig. Gen. Roy Robinson of Mississippi was elected vice chair-Army. Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac of Nebraska will serve as vice chair-Air. Retired Brig. Gen. Ken Ross of Louisiana was elected again to serve as treasurer and Col. Murray Hansen of Georgia will continue to serve as secretary.
The vote also included several board member positions.
Area II adjutant general representative is now Maj. Gen. James Hoyer of West Virginia. The Army representative is Col. Dave Fleming of Delaware. The Air representative is Brig. Gen. Carol Timmons of Delaware.
The Area V adjutant general representative will continue to be Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk of North Dakota. The Army representative is now Brig. Gen. Brian Copes of Indiana and Brig. Gen. John Fago of Nebraska will continue as the Air representative.
Capt. Mark Timmons of Oregon was elected as the Army representative for company grade officers. Retired Col. Don Deering of Tennessee will continue as the Army representative for retired/separated officers, while retired Brig. Gen. David Brubaker of Indiana was elected to serve as the Air representative for retired/separated officers.
Nearly 1,000 NGAUS members were among the 4,000 people registered for the 136th General Conference and Exhibition. With nearly 300 exhibitors displaying their wares at the trade show and speakers from Congress and the Pentagon, the association’s gathering in the Windy City was one of the most successful in recent memory.
The conference’s final event is the States Dinner at the site of the conference, McCormick Place, one of the nation’s premier convention centers.
Speakers have included Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the chief of staff of the Air Force, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and Gen. Darren W. McDew, the commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Retired Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro, the chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board, and Rep. William Enyart, R-Illinois, a former Illinois adjutant general now in his first term in Congress, also spoke.
Full coverage of the conference will be published in the September issue of NATIONAL GUARD.
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To celebrate the resumption of case lot sales, DeCA – Defense Commissary Agency will be featuring a Commissary Customer Appreciation Case Lot Sale over two or three days between August 14 and September 30.
August 29-31 Schofield Barracks
September 5-7 Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii
September 11-14 Hickam Air Force Base
September 19-21 Pearl Harbor
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