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COMMANDING OFFICER CDR JOHN D. LUKE Oftll iring iina, sioo ,lhe kCK fate and Commander John D. Luke was born in Winchester, Massachusetts and raised in North Conway, New Hampshire. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he received his commission from Officers Candidate School in 1962 and was ordered to USS Illusive (MSO 448) as the Operations Officer and later as the Executive Officer and Engineer. After a short tour in USS Newman K Perry (DD 883) and upon graduating from Destroyer School, he was assigned as Engineer Officer in USS John R. Perry (DE 1034) until January 1968. In February 1968, Commander Luke was assigned to the Staff of Commander Cruiser Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Following a year at the Defense Language Institute studying Vietnamese, he was assigned to the Commander Naval Forces Vietnam where he served as the Senior Advisor to the Vietnamese Navy for Planned Maintenance until August 1972. Following graduation from Terrier Missile School in February 1973, Commander Luke reported abord USS Jouett (DLG 29) as her first Combat Systems Officer. In August 1976 he was assigned as the Executive Officer in USS Lynde McCormick (DDG 8). His most recent tour of duty was as Chairman of the Department of Leadership and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. His military decorations include the Navy Commendation Medal, two awards; the Navy Unit Commendation, the Vietnamese Armed Forces Honor First Class, and various theater and service medals. Commander Luke is married to the former Ardith Ann Thompson of Columbus, Ohio. They have four children, John, Joanna, Bradford, and Peter.
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JOHN MERCER BROOKE USS BROOKE (FFG 1) is named in honor of John Mercer BROOKE, a distinguished officer of the United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy. BROOKE was born December 18, 1826 near Tampa, Florida. He was appointed midshipman in 1841 and first served at sea in DELAWARE under Commander David Glasgow FARRAGUT in Brazilian waters. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1847. BROOKE served with the hydrographic party of the Coast Survey under LT S. P. LEE. He also served with Matthew F. MAURY at the Naval Observatory where he invented a deep-sea sounding apparatus which brought ocean specimens to light and enabled ocean topography to be mapped. He served in VINCENNES in the North Pacific and Bering Straits Surveying and Exploring Expedition, aiding Commodore John ROGERS in preparing charts and records of the expedition. In 1858. BROOKE was assigned to survey a route from California to China, which he successfully completed. A Lieutenant in the United States Navy at the outbreak of the Civil War. BROOKE resigned his commission to join the Virginia State Navy and, thereafter, the Confederate States Navy. He invented the BROOKE gun, the most powerful employed by the Confederates. BROOKE also devised the plans for reconstructing MERRIMACK into a powerful ironclad for which he prepared the armor and guns. He became a Commander in the Confederate States Navy on September 13, 1862. Six months later he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, Confederate States Navy, a post he held throughout the remainder of the Civil War. BROOKE taught at the Virginia Military Institute after the close of the Civil War. He retired in 1899 and died December 14, 1906. I 1
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS t BC , CDR R. K. PETERS (July 1980 - February 1982) LCDR D. L WHITMIRE MMMwi« w nMMMlBMMMM tMflii
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