67-68′ Cruise Book - USS LYNDE McCORMICK DDG-8

1967-68
UNITED STATES SHIP
LYNDE McCORMICK
DDG-8
17 August 1967 - 24 April 1968
LYNDE D. McCORMICK
ADMIRAL, USN
SHIP’S
HISTORY
UNITED STATES SHIP
LYNDE McCORMICK
Named after
one of the Navy’s
LYNDE McCORMICK(DDG-8)
Boston,
Mass. The naval
a high standard of pert
most distinquished
LYNDE McCORMI~
Michigan.
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plished
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Upon her return
to
able to relax from th,
rest and rehabilitation,
awarded her second consecuti
Department
Excellence
Award~ a seconc
modern-day naval figures,
USS
)n 3 June 1961, Naval Shipyard,
ded the ship by example
ny in Bay City,
28 July 1959
on the Great
t. Lawrence
of San
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ment
d
flay
"E"
~hip~om?E~eriod and
Jack
’s crew was
during a month of
she had been
Award, a second Operations
"A", and a third Missilery
"E" .
JOHN A. McCOOK
COMMANDER,
U.S.
NAVY
Commander McCook graduated
from the
U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1948-A.
Early in his career he served on the
destroyers
PURDY, MACOMB, and WILLIAM C. LAWE, the Cruiser
USS ATf USS WISLANTA, the 1last battleship
CONSIN and minesweepers
USSGULL
and USS CURLEW, commanding
the
latter
during the Korean Conflict.
In
due time he completed
three years of
graduate study, including
a one year
course in underwater
physics
sponsored by the Bureau of Ships in 1953,
and a two-year
Weapons System Engineering
course at the U.S. Naval
Post-graduate
Engineering
School,
Monterey,
California
in 1956. Commander McCook’s first
assignment
ashore
was to the Navyls POLARIS
Special
Projects
Office,
Washington,
D.C.
where he headed the launcher
design section.
Subsequently,
he was ordered as the
first
Executive Officer of the new guided
missile
frigate
MacDONOUGH. Prior
to
completing
a full
tour on MacDONOUGH
he was ordered
to ALBANYas the first
Weapons Officer of the first
conventionally
powered ~all Guided Missile ~ cruise
in the
Navy. He then served as Executive
and
Administrative
Assistant
to the Director,
Surface Missile
Systems Project
Office,
Bureau of Naval Personnel,
until reporting
to the guided missile
destroyer,
USS LYNDE McCORMICK where
he assumed
command on 21 April 1966, at Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines.
Upon detachment
Commander McCOOK will
report
to Washington,
D.C. for duty with Naval Ordnance
Systems
Command.
USS LYNDE McCORMICK DDG-8
21 APRIL 1966 - 18 MARCH
1968
On 18 March 1968, underway in the sea
of Japan,
CDR. William H. Rowden relieved
CDR. John A. McCook as commanding
officer
USS LYNDE McCORMICK DDG8.
COMMANDING
Commander
ROWDEN graduated
from
the U.S. Naval Academy with the class
of 1952. He served as Weapons Officer
on the destroyer
USS YARNALL for his
first
tour of duty operating in the Western Pacific
during the Korean Conflict.
After a short period as Executive Officer,
Commander
ROWDEN became
Commanding Officer
of the coastal
minesweeper
USS CORMORANT. His
first
assignment
ashore was to the
Bureau of Naval Personnel
for enlisted
distribution.
Commander ROWDEN returned to sea duty as Executive Officer
of the destroyer
escort
USS LESTER
before attending
the U.S. Navy Postgraduate
School, Monterey, California
in June 1961 for a two year Ordnance
Engineering
course.
Subsequently
he
became Commanding Officer
of the destroyer
escort
USS BAUER serving
as
a unit of the Seventh Fleet in operations
connected
with the Vietnamese
War.
Prior to recent studies
at the Armed
Forces
Staff
College,
Commander ROWDEN served
as a Personal
Aide to Commander in Chief, Pacific.
Commander ROWDENis a native
of
Vermont.
He is married
to the former
Sarah Sumner of Rockford, Illinois.
They have a daughter,
Sara Jane and two
sons,
Thomas Sumner and John William.
WILLIAM H. ROWDEN
COMMANDER,
U.S.
NAVY
USS LYNDE McCORMICK DDG-8
18 MARCH1968
OFFICERS
CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY
Pr()~i-a~
Musical
National
Selections
&q t hem
Invocation
Remarks and Readh~g of Orders
Commander John A. McCook, U.S. Navy
Reading
of Orders
Commander William
and Remarks
H. Rt~wden, U.S. Navy
Commander gowden Relieves
Commander Mccook
as
Commanding Officer
US8 Lynde Mc Cormick
Benediction
Musical Selections
Reception
LCDR. Beedle enlisted
in the U.S. Navy in January
1947 and served in USS TACO
NIC {AGC-17) and USS RANDOLPH{CVA-15) as an Electronics
Technician
in 1957,
Mr. Beedle was assigned
as CIC Officer
in USS R.E. KRAUSE {EDD-849}. Moving
to the Staff of Commander, Operational
Test and Evaluation
Force in 1960, Mr.
Beedle functioned
as a l~roject
Officer for the test and evaluation
of Combat Direction Systems for three years.
In 1963 Mr. Beedle was assigned
as the Technical
Director
of the National
Observatory
of the United States.
Mr. Beedle was instrumental in thc development and ultimate
success of the navyts Navigational
Satellite
System, the Omega Navigation
System and related
programs in Air Force,
NASA and the USC aad GS. In 1966 LCDR. Beedle reported
to Commanding Officer
USS JOUETT as the shipts
first
Operations
Officer.
In January of 1967, LCDR.
Beedlc relieved
LCDR. W. Donlan as Executive
Officer,
USS LYNDE McC()RMICK
{DDG-8} and served in that capacity during the second half of the ship’s third deployment to the combat zone off Vietnam.
LCDR. Beedle is a native of Illiaois.
He attended
the University
of Illinois,
George Washington University,
Georgetown University
and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Graduate School.
lte is married to the former Gene Marilyn Moss of
Granite
City, Ill.
They have one son, Michael Lee. LCDR. Beedle and his family
currently
make their
home in Clairmont,
a northern
suburb of San Diego, California.
LCDR.Leeland S. Beedle, Jr.
PRESENT EXECUTIVE OFFICER
LCDR. William Donlan
~’AST EXECUTIVEOFFICER
CAPTAIN ROGER SPREEN
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B ORN EO
HAWAII
SASEBO
SASEBO-a brief
interlude for the LYNDE
CORMICK. A time to
relax,
a time to meet
people
and make new
friends,
a time to observe local customs and
take part in thcm before
once again, taking up
task.
HONG KONG
Morning stagecoach.
UNREPS
Whenthe brass ts over the bridge we’ll give it back.
(Top) McCOILMICKwas number 100 for SACRAMENTO.
(Above) SACRAMENTO
can give it to you anyway you
want, by hose, air or high line.
The skipper likes a close approach.
"They gave me a life
jacket of my very own. "
Inspection for the troops.
AWARDS CEREMONY
IN SASEBO
The XOpauses for a moment’s reflection.
CDR. McCook congratulates
IIMC Haggerty.
Over at last!
WHILEIN SASEBO, WEHADA PARTY.....
"You see, it unscrews like this.
"
"What an interesting
story.
"
"...
a little
token of our esteem...
Dave, wake up.
"Thish ish d great party. "’
When we planeguard,
WE PLANEGUARD!
PLANEGUARD
I lvlEAN REALLY CLOSE!
5o
4
CHANGE
OF
COMMAND
CI)R. ?.dcC¢~okrclcnquishes his ship .....
.....
CI)R. Rowdelltal-zes col~lIllalld ......
.....
and LYNDEMcCOR~’,IlCKhas a new skipper.
Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
AROUND
THE SHIP ....
HEREANDTHERE.....
WALSWORTH
Marceline,Mo., U.S.A