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2001 1st Annual A3ADV Reunion Thursday Pictures

reun_hotel.jpg (30270 bytes) The Clarion Hotel in Carlisle, our home base for the reunion.  
  Wesley Gordon at the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_1.jpg (36625 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_2.jpg (37591 bytes) Daryl Gordon at the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks.  
  Too bad all of our troops can't have housing like this! reun_carlisle_army_barracks_4.jpg (35627 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_5.jpg (33399 bytes) Residence building built by the Indian School and still in use today for quarters.  
  The tour gang gathered around the gazebo off the parade ground. L to R, Mike, Carl, ?, Jack, ?, Ike, Daryl, and our guide.
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_6.jpg (38064 bytes) German 88 gun at Carlisle Barracks (with Wesley Gordon).  
  German 88 gun at Carlisle Barracks (with Daryl Gordon). reun_carlisle_army_barracks_7.jpg (37277 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_8.jpg (44847 bytes) The Hessian Powder Magazine at Carlisle Barracks. The walls are three feet thick!  
  The Hessian Powder Magazine from the revolutionary war and still in use as a museum today at Carlisle Barracks. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_9.jpg (27601 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_10.jpg (42239 bytes) Jack Klepps going into the magazine. The entry looks like a hallway, but actually you are just walking through the three foot thickness of the wall.  
  Inside the magazine, information about the War College. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_11.jpg (22456 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_12.jpg (16054 bytes) Steel door for one of the storerooms in the Hessian Magazine.  
  Statue of Frederick the Great. Our guide said this statue was stored out of sight during WWII. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_13.jpg (45258 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_14.jpg (34447 bytes) Quarters 3; just one of the elegant residences at Carlisle Barracks.  
  The Jim Thorpe gymnasium at Carlisle Barracks built by the Indian school that was there. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_15.jpg (25848 bytes)
Inside the Jim Thorpe gymnasium. Note the elevated running track around the top of the gym.  
  The backside of the History Institute with a corner of the Jim Thorpe gymnasium. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_16.jpg (25335 bytes)
reun_carlisle_army_barracks_17.jpg (45458 bytes) A memorial plaza and monument commemorating the schools at Carlisle Barracks.  
  A closer look at the monument. reun_carlisle_army_barracks_18.jpg (40507 bytes)

 

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