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MARCH 7, 2001   

Gun Range Dedication Ceremony at Great Lakes, Illinois.   
A brand new gun range at Great Lakes Training Center was commissioned as the  "USS Wisconsin BB-64  Gun Range".  Carl Capestrain, our President, along with Dave Patrykus and several other Association Members attended the ribbon cutting ceremonies.  Our Association presented Rear Admiral D. Polatty with a plaque commemorating this event.  It is an honor to have had them pick the USS Wisconsin as their gun range namesake.  After the ceremony, Association members and wives were allowed qualify on the new range with the Navy's current sidearm, the 9mm automatic.  I understand that they didn't do to badly, either.  Lunch was then  served at the Recruits mess hall.  The event was coordinator by GM 2 Al Weber of Hartford, WI, an instructor in The Recruit Training Command.
Photos NO. 1 to NO. 11 were taken by Jerry Wiedenhoeft, QM3 1951-55

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 03-07-01 001 Admiral.jpg (53324 bytes)
 RADM  D. Polatty		 2
 03-07-01 002 Gunnery Captain.JPG (68290 bytes)
 Capt. Gantt		 3
 03-07-01 003 Plaque Presentation.JPG (53484 bytes)
 Presentation of the plaque
by Carl Capestrain.		 4
 03-07-01 004 Cermonial cake.JPG (54990 bytes)
 Ceremonial cake
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 03-07-01 005 D. Patrykus.JPG (59356 bytes)
 Gerry Myers &
 Dave Patrykus		 6
 03-07-01 006 Joel and Susan Adler.JPG (55872 bytes)
 Joel & Susan Adler		 7
 03-07-01 007 Kitty and Recruits.JPG (47581 bytes)
 Kitty Wiedenhoeft & recruits		 8
 03-07-01 008 Admiral and Vips.JPG (63346 bytes)
 ?  RADM Polatty &  ?
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 03-07-01 009 Ribbon Cutting.JPG (53771 bytes)
 Ribbon Cutting		 10
 03-07-01 010 Vets.JPG (42650 bytes)
 Our guys		 11
 03-07-01 011 Vets and Wives.JPG (37495 bytes)
 Our guys and gals		 12
 03-07-01 012 Capt. Gantt.jpg (33885 bytes)
 CAPT. Gantt
Photos No. 12 to No. 20
and photos No. 23 to 
  No. 32 were taken by
  GM1(SW) Jackson.
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 03-07-01 014 RADM D.Polatty.jpg (30041 bytes)
 RADM D. Polatty		 15
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 03-07-01 017 Capt. Gantt RADM D. Polatty.jpg (35627 bytes)
 Capt.  Gantt and
RADM Polatty.		 18
 03-07-01 018 Carl Capestrain.jpg (31722 bytes)		 19
 03-07-01 019.jpg (38120 bytes)
 Carl Capestrain presenting plaque to the Great Lakes Gun Range.		 20
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 03-07-01 021.jpg (51682 bytes)
 Carl presenting painting
of USS Wisconsin to Great Lakes Gun Range.
Next 2 photos were taken
by Rita Janz.		 22
 03-07-01 022.JPG (65683 bytes)		 23
 03-07-01 023.jpg (63288 bytes)
 USS Wisconsin 
Gun Range ribbon cutting



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 Gun Range building.		 26
 03-07-01 026.jpg (45020 bytes)
 Ceremonial cake.		 27
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 Cutting the cake.		 28
 03-07-01 028.jpg (54035 bytes)
 Time for sea stories.
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 More sea stories.		 30
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 Gun range.		 31
 03-07-01 031 Carl on the gun range..jpg (48573 bytes)
 How did you do Carl ?		 32
 03-07-01 032.jpg (51156 bytes)

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