At Your Service
For and about Hawaii's militaryBy Gregg K. Kakesako
Sunday, October 28, 2001
See also: For Your Benefit
Brig. Gen. Jason K. Kamiya has been selected to become the commanding general of the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La. 1972 St. Louis School
graduate to take command
of Joint Readiness
Training CenterHe will replace Brig. Gen. Charles H. Swannack, Jr. who will command the Multi-National Division (North), Stabilization Force-11, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1995 Swannack, then 2nd Brigade commander, was among the 3,700 Hawaii soldiers sent to Haiti to keep the peace as part of the 25th Division's Task Force Warrior.
In June 2000, Kamiya, a 1972 St. Louis School graduate, received his first star. He is returning to Fort Polk where from 1997 to 1999 he headed the Warrior Brigade at the Joint Readiness Training Center.
Kamiya is currently assistant division commander in charge of support operations for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Ky.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, returned to Camp Shelby yesterday (where he took basic training in World War II as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team) to officially open a new $4.5 million Armed Forces Museum. The museum features exhibits ranging from the War of 1812 to today's peacekeeping operations.
Inouye was the keynote speaker at the event attended by Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and the museum board. Inouye, the first Japanese American elected to Congress, received the Medal of Honor for advancing on a German machine gun nest that had his platoon pinned down in Italy. He lost his right arm after it was shattered by a German rifle grenade.
Club 100, whose members are drawn from the famed 100th Battalion, is preparing for its 60th anniversary June 27-30. Activities are to include a golf tournament, a tour of the Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona and USS Missouri memorials, a memorial service at Fort DeRussy and a luncheon banquet. Organizers have created a website: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/club100 where more information on the 60th anniversary celebration and other club activities will be posted.
Sen. Daniel Inouye and his wife, Margaret; Sen. Daniel Akaka and his wife, Millie; California Assemblyman George Nakano and his wife, Helen; and Hollywood stars George Takei and Pat Morita have contributed their favorite recipes for a cookbook, "More Veteran's Favorites," sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Go For Broke Foundation.
Also available is a third printing of "Veterans' Favorites," the Foundation's first cookbook, which has sold over 7,000 copies.
The price for "More Veterans' Favorites" is $25 and the third printing of "Veterans' Favorites" is $20. Shipping is included in the price.
Proceeds from the cookbook will be used to continue and expand the foundation's educational programs, including an interactive website, www.goforbroke.org.
More information about the Go for Broke Educational Foundation can be obtained by phone at 310-328-0907, by fax at 310-222-5700 or by e-mail at esoldier@goforbroke.org.
The Marine Corps is contemplating adding 2,400 troops as it moves toward forming an anti-terrorism brigade. The brigade would include a chemical and biological incident response force that was created after the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo as a rapid deployable decontamination unit. It also would include a security force battalion tasked with everything from protecting nuclear weapons to beefing up security at military or embassy facilities.
Gregg K. Kakesako can be reached by phone at 294-4075
or by e-mail at gkakesako@starbulletin.com.
