MSgt (Ret) Joseph J. Roginski is the Director of the Retiree Activities Office, 35th Fighter Wing, Misawa Air Base. He is responsible for providing assistance and information to about four hundred and fifty retirees, dependents and survivors in the six prefectures of Tohoku (northeast Japan) of Fukushima, Yamagata, Miyagi, Iwate, Akita, Aomori and the northern island of Hokkaido. He is responsible for assisting in casuality affairs, social security, tax preparation and ensuring survivors of miilitary personnel from all branches of service receive their entitled benefits. He is the editor and publisher for the quarterly Retiree Activities Office Newsletter that is mailed to all local retirees and to other retiree Activities Offices in the Pacific and CONUS.

MSgt Roginski entered the service in February 1965 and after training at the Defense Language Institute at Indiana University and Military Intelligence Operations training at Goodfellow AFB. He served in Samsun, Turkey and Misawa Air Base, Japan as a voice intercept processing specialist and intelligence analyst. MSgt Roginski also participated in special deployments, including the USNS Arnold for intelligence collection against the Soviets in the Arctic Circle, Search and Rescue Operations in conjunction with the Korean Airlines Flt. 007 shot down by the Soviets over Sakhalin Island and special intelligence collection operations at various classified locations.

After retirement from the Air Force in September 1985, MSgt Roginski took a position as the Misawa Branch manager with the USA Federal Credit Union and became the Regional Director for Japan until his retirement from the credit union in December 2009.

With both parents in the US Army, MSgt Roginski was born at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. Early childhook ws near Denver, CO and then Newark, NJ where he enlisted in the Air Force in 1965. He currently resides in Misawa City, Japan with his spouse Chise (Chiko) Roginski (near Yanagisawa).