In the Military
For and about Hawaii's servicemen and womenBy Gregg K. Kakesako
See also: For Your Benefit
2 UH professors
collaborate on Army
safe-driving campaignTwo University of Hawaii experts on aggressive driving will be part of an Army safe-driving campaign on the mainland called "Combat Aggressive Driving."
The Army selected the American Institute for Public Safety's innovative interactive programs to help limit loss of life from automotive crashes involving soldiers and their families while operating their private cars. The campaign will be built on AIPS' aggressive-driver course called "RoadRageous."
RoadRageous is the nation's first comprehensive course on aggressive driving. Presented in eight one-hour segments, the course was developed by AIPS in conjunction with three leading experts on aggressive driving,: Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl, both of the University of Hawaii, and Dr. Arnold Nerenberg, a Ph.D. psychologist in Southern California known as "America's road-rage therapist."
James and Nerenberg have testified before Congress on aggressive driving and road rage, now ranked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as the leading concern among drivers today.
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The 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds" welcomed four children from the Holy Family Home Orphanage in Osaka, Japan, yesterday at the Honolulu International Airport. From left, Raynold Tayag, 10, Haruna Atsusaka, 10, Tomomi Yamano, 12, and Koichiro Matsuda, 11, were seated. In 1957, the Wolfhounds began this tradition of inviting orphans to visit soldiers and their families stationed in Hawaii.
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With sales of more than $116 million, the Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange Pearl Harbor has been named the winner of the 2001 Bingham Award.The award is based partly on sales by exchanges in the superstore category.
The category covers Navy exchanges in San Diego, Norfolk, Va., and Pensacola, Fla., which together generate $90.4 million to $163.3 million annually.
Besides sales, the award considers customer comment card responses, operating costs and net profits.
Tripler Army Medical Center staff were dispatched on three different humanitarian missions to assist the people of Chuuk following Typhoon Chatan.
Tripler logistics and pharmacy staff stocked five pallets of supplies and equipment and the U.S. Air Force flew the pallets with $10,000 worth of supplies paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Guam and then to Chuuk.
Lt. Col. Larry Connell, Tripler's chief of operations, received calls July 12 asking for a trauma critical care team, part of the Special Medical Augmentation Response Team.
Seven SMART members deployed as a complete surgical team to perform needed operations in Chuuk.
Moving up
>> At the Maui High-Performance Computing Center, Lt. Col. Jeffrey M. McCann assumed command of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Detachment 15, relieving Maj. Raley Marek. McCann also will become chief of the Space Surveillance Systems Branch of the laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate. Marek is moving to a new assignment at the Air Intelligence Agency in San Antonio, Texas.
Gregg K. Kakesako can be reached by phone at 294-4075
or by e-mail at gkakesako@starbulletin.com.
