Cole (DDG 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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N2 CSWD Marc I. Nleto t 515 . .V .1 -3 July 25, 1976 - October 12, 2000 Marc Ian Nieto was bom on July 25, 1976 in Champaign, Illinois to Jesse Nieto and Marc was on board for two deployments with COLE and was one of the last Qgx Sharon Priepke. Marc attended parochial school until the eighth grade and he graduated from an altemative program run by Fond du Lac Goodnch High School where he was able to leam at an accelerated pace Marc graduated one year before those IH his senior class Marc was on the basketball team track team and even played football his freshman year of high school Marc had a com1c book collection He loved going to car shows and was always interested in how cars worked He even collected Matchbox cars and eighteen wheelers When he was younger Marc also raised and showed rabb1ts at the fair through the 4 H pro grams and usually won Best 11'1 Show Marc liked all different types of muslc and had qulte a CD collection to prove it Marc also loved watching NASCAR raclng on television Marc joined the Navy in December 1994 He attended Basic Tramlng and Engineman A School tn Great Lakes Ill1no1s He reported to USS COLE and was forever marked as a Plankowner Plankowners still stationed aboard. He was advanced to Engineman Second Class during the stx years he was in the Navy Petty Officer N1eto received numerous awards including Letters of Commenda t1on Letters of Apprec1at1on des1gnat1on as an Enlisted Sur face Warfare Speclahst K1998l JLm1or Determined Wamor of the Quarter from October to December 1998 Good Con duct Award C1999l and the Navy and Marine Corps Achlevement Medal f1999l Petty Officer Nieto was sup- posed to leave COLE one week after a terronst bomb claimed h1sl1fe on October 12 2000 as his enlistment in the Navy was coming to an end He was 24 EN2 KSWJ Nieto was posthu mously awarded the Purple Heart by the President of the United States Petty Officer Nieto IS survived by his parents Sharon and Jesse his siblmgs COI'1l'11Q Wlnnd and Jeffrey McKee his step mother Lynn and h1s f1al'lC99 Jalmie Deguz man 7 7 7 7 7 - u - - 77 7 . , ' ' 7 7 7 7 aa . . ,, . . . 7 1 - 7 7 . ca 77 - - 7 1 7 7 ' 7 ac 77

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ITSN James R. lVIcDanielsz Apr1l27 1981 - QC Octcber 12 Daisaan Jesse James McDaniels l 7 James Rodrick lVlcDaniels was bom on April 27, 1981 to Dianne lVIcDaniels and James Mclsaughlin. James was affec- tionately known as Lil Mac to his family, even though he was 6'4 tall. As James grew older, he started participating in sports such as football and basketball. Eventually James gave up football and concen- trated on playing basketball throughout middle school and into high school. James attended Norview High School in Norfolk, Virginia and gradu- ated in 1999. James played basketball on the Norview Pilots team and was known as i'No. 245 During high school, James joined the Navy because of his love for adven- ture and his sense of duty. He told his sisters that sailing to the Middle East on a Navy destroyer was the most excit- ing thing he had ever done. James had big plans for his return home from deploy- ment. He was going to man'y his high school sweetheart, Novella Wiggins, who was pregnant with their first child. The couple knew their child was going to be a boy, and they had chosen the name il Daisaan Jesse James. James 1 1 had joked that he would nick- name his son Ace . On October 12, 2000, sono ' grams of their child were being sent to him via e-mail. He would never see them. On ' that same day, Seaman lVIcDaniels was in the galley fulfilling his required 90 day tour as a Food Service Atten- dant CFSAJ when a terrorist bomb took his life at the age ' of 19. IT SN McDaniels was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by the President of the United States. JHH951 when he was six years old, told his mother that he woke up and saw an angel hoverin9 over him. Now, said his meth- er, he is up there entertair11I'lQ the angels with his sense of . humor. Seaman lVIcDanielS 15 survived by his parents, Dianne and James, his Silf lings, Warren, Fredrica, and Dominique, his niece, Bianca, his nephew, James, his I fiancee, Novella, and thelf child, Daisaan, who was bom on February 15, 2001- We all love you Lil Mac. Rest in Peace

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EW2 Ronald S. Owens October 31, 1975 - October 12, 2000 Ronald Scott Owens was born. on October 31, 1975. f'Scott'7, as he was known to family and friends, mar- ried his high school sweetheart, Jaime Scott, in November 1995. The following year, their daughter, Isabella, was born. Scott had dreams of obtaining an officer's commission upon returning from deployment in February. l-Ie wanted an education and thought that a commissioning program would be the best way to achieve that goal. Scott would have been 25 on Halloween if a terrorist bomb had not taken his life on October 12, 2000. Petty Officer Owens was posthu- mously awarded the rank of Electronics Warfare Tech- nician Second Class. EW2 Owens was also awarded the Purple Heart by the President of the United States Petty Officer Owens is survived by his wife, Jaime their daughter, Isabella Cage ill, and other family nfem- bers and friends.