Bill Text: IL HJR0152 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates that the section of Interstate 155 beginning at the Hopedale Exit on Illinois Route 122 and ending at the intersection of Illinois Route 9 as the "Major Reid Nannen Memorial Highway".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-06-30 - Adopted Both Houses [HJR0152 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HJR0152-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, It is appropriate for us to remember the many | ||||||
3 | sacrifices and contributions to the
cause of freedom made by | ||||||
4 | the outstanding men and women who served in the United States | ||||||
5 | Armed Forces; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Major Reid Nannen, son of Mary Ann and Dale | ||||||
7 | Nannen, was a Hopedale native; he attended Olympia High School, | ||||||
8 | where he was a two-year captain of the swim team, section
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9 | leader for the drum line, a member of Elite Eight baseball | ||||||
10 | teams in 1999 and 2000, and was an
Illinois State Scholar; and
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11 | WHEREAS, After graduating from Olympia, Major Nannen | ||||||
12 | attended the University of Illinois, where he
was a member of | ||||||
13 | the NROTC battalion and participated with the Marching Illini | ||||||
14 | Drum Line and
NROTC Drill Team; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen enlisted in the U.S. Marines and was | ||||||
16 | commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant
in May 2004; he attended The | ||||||
17 | Basic School with Delta Company class 4-04, the Naval
Aviation | ||||||
18 | Training with Marine Aviation Training Support Group 21 at | ||||||
19 | Naval Air Station
Pensacola, the Naval Air Station Whiting | ||||||
20 | Field, and Naval Air Station Meridian; he received his
Wings of | ||||||
21 | Gold in February of 2007 and was selected to fly F/A-18 | ||||||
22 | Hornets; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen moved to Lemoore, California for | ||||||
2 | fleet replacement training with Strike Fighter
Squadron VF | ||||||
3 | A-125 in May of 2007; he reported for duty with Marine Air | ||||||
4 | Group-11 at Marine
Corps Air Station Miramar, and in June of | ||||||
5 | 2008, he joined Marine Fighter Attack Squadron VMF A
(AW)-23 2 | ||||||
6 | and was deployed from May to December of 2010 in support of | ||||||
7 | Operation Enduring
Freedom 10.2 to Kandahar Airfield in | ||||||
8 | Afghanistan; and
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9 | WHEREAS, While with the Red Devils, Major Nannen served as | ||||||
10 | Naval Air Training and
Operating Procedures Standardization, | ||||||
11 | Ground Safety, Airframes, and Embark Officer, and
attended | ||||||
12 | Tactical Air Control Party training in May of 2011; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen was then detached from the Red Devils | ||||||
14 | and proceeded to Camp Pendleton,
California for duty as a | ||||||
15 | forward air controller with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance | ||||||
16 | battalion; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen again deployed to Afghanistan from | ||||||
18 | October of 2011 to May of 2012 with 1st
LAR in support of | ||||||
19 | Operation Enduring Freedom 12.1 in the lower Helmand River | ||||||
20 | Valley in
Afghanistan, supporting every company within 1st LAR | ||||||
21 | and conducting the first company level
helicopter operations | ||||||
22 | within the battle space; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen returned to Camp Pendleton and | ||||||
2 | subsequently detached from the battalion for
refresher | ||||||
3 | training at VMFAT-101; he was transferred to VMFA (AW)-242, | ||||||
4 | based in Iwakuni,
Japan, where he served as the Assistant | ||||||
5 | Operations Officer; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen's awards and decorations include the | ||||||
7 | NATO Medal, Sea Service
Deployment Ribbon, Global War on | ||||||
8 | Terrorism Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal,
National | ||||||
9 | Defense Medal, Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Achievement Medal, | ||||||
10 | Navy
Commendation Medal, and Air Medal; and
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11 | WHEREAS, On March 1, 2014, Major Nannen, while | ||||||
12 | participating in the elite Top Gun Pilot
training school, was | ||||||
13 | killed when the FI A-18C Hornet he was piloting during a | ||||||
14 | training exercise
crashed on the Fallen Range Training Complex, | ||||||
15 | about 70 miles east of Naval Air Station Fallon,
Nevada; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Major Nannen left behind his parents, Dale and | ||||||
17 | Mary Ann; his wife, Sarah, also a
Military Veteran; four young | ||||||
18 | children, Peter, Curtis, Betsy, and Isla; and his sisters, | ||||||
19 | Briana
Nannen and Bethany Miller; therefore, be it
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20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
21 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE |
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1 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate that the section of
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2 | Interstate 155 beginning at the Hopedale Exit on Illinois Route | ||||||
3 | 122 and ending at the intersection
of Illinois Route 9 as the | ||||||
4 | "Major Reid Nannen Memorial Highway"; and be it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation | ||||||
6 | is requested to erect at suitable
locations, consistent with | ||||||
7 | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | ||||||
8 | giving
notice of the name of the "Major Reid Nannen Memorial | ||||||
9 | Highway"; and be it further
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10 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
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11 | presented to the family of Major Nannen, the Mayor of Hopedale, | ||||||
12 | and the Secretary
of the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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