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RETIRED OFFICERS
Retired officers help food bank
The Hawai'i Chapter of The Retired Officers Association donated more than 1,200 pounds of food and $700 to the Hawai'i Foodbank as the result of its third-annual "Helping Hawai'i" program. Members, guests and supporters of the retired military community met Nov. 17 at the Hickam Air Force Base Officers Club for a Thanksgiving buffet and silent auction. Hawai'i chapter members are from all the uniformed services.
HONORS CEREMONY
Remains return from Vietnam
Remains believed to be of six missing American servicemen from the Vietnam War will be honored during an arrival ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Two sets of remains were recovered from Vietnam and four sets of remains were recovered from Laos by military and civilian members of Joint Task Force-Full Accounting and the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawai'i.
Following the ceremony, which will include a joint service honor guard, the remains will be taken to CILHI where the forensic identification process will begin.
AIR FORCE
Air Force Inns honors manager
A member of the 15th Services Squadron was named Air Force Innkeeper Travelers Award winner for 2001 at the annual Air Force Inns awards ceremony Nov. 10 in New York City.
Misty Hironaka, the assistant lodging manager for the Royal Alaka'i, oversees most of the billet's operations, including housekeeping, maintenance, the front desk, reservations and accounting.
ARMY
UH Army ROTC tops in region
The University of Hawai'i Army ROTC Warrior Battalion has been awarded the MacArthur Award for being the top ROTC battalion among 77 programs in the Army ROTC 4th Region.
Maj. Gen. John Casey, commanding general of ROTC, awarded the Warrior Battalion $10,000 for the unit's high quality of cadets and overall program accomplishments.
The UH program is ranked third of 270 programs nationwide in officer production. The Warrior Battalion has commissioned 23 lieutenants for each of the past two years and expects to commission 34 lieutenants this year.
NAVY
Fargo's wife sponsors ship
Sarah Fargo, the wife of U.S. Pacific Fleet Adm. Thomas Fargo, was expected to serve as a sponsor of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Bulkeley at a commissioning ceremony Saturday in New York City.
The ship, which will be based in Norfolk, Va., is named in honor of Navy Vice Adm. John Duncan Bulkeley, who died in 1996. While in command of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Three and Seven during the defense of the Philippines in World War II, Bulkeley evacuated Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Quezon of the Philippines, and destroyed several Japanese planes and merchant ships, the Pentagon said.
Expected to serve as the ship's other sponsors were Bulkeley's three daughters, Regina Day, Joan Stade, and Diana Lindsay, and daughter-in-law Carol A. Bulkeley.
