Gridley (DLG 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMDESRON 19 STAFF LCDR READ Chief of Staff LT FLEMING Weapons LT LONERGAN Medical M LT ERICK Chaplain LTJG HASKELL Communicator WO PATTERSON Electronics Maintenance GRIDLEY is the Flagship of Commander Destroyer Squadron NINETEEN, Captain James L. COOK, Jr. His Staff consists of six officers and nine enlisted men whose job is to support the Commander and aid the nine ships of the Squadron in the areas of Operations, Communications, Electronics, Engineering, Medicine, and Morale. During this deployment the Staff was embarked temporarily in USS BAINBRIDGE (DLG (N)25), USS HENRY B. WILSON (DDG7), and USS WADDELL (DDG24), as well as GRIDLEY, and was assigned duties as the Tonkin Gulf Search and Rescue Com- mander and the South Vietnam Naval Gunfii ' e Support Commander. During GRIDLEY ' s visit to Australia and New Zealand, COMDESRON 19 was in charge of the ships visiting Adelaide and later assumed duties as the Coral Sea Celebration Task Group Commander. GRIDLEY is ideally suited to be a Scjuadron Flagship because of her Unit Commander Accomodations and looks forward to having the Commodore on boai ' d permanently wliile operating in the Eastern Pacific. r 1

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COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADRON 19 rt, fr WL .■■■niinir Captain James L. Cook, Jr. was born in Alimieapolis, Mimicsota and raised in South Pasadena, California. He entered the U.S. Navy in the simimer of 1940 from Santa Barbara State College, served in the cruiser WICHITA, and was commissioned Ensign in September 19 11 from Northwestern Universitj- Midshipman School. After naval intelligence duties in California and Pearl Harbor, he served in the destroyer SCHELEY in early 1942, and then USS OmASOL as gunnery officer. In July 194:1 lie commissioned USS SC 1287 as Commanding Officer and then transferred this sliip to the USSR under the Lend-Lease program. From Jidy 1944 luitil May 194G he served as Conmianding Officer of USS ZIRCON on escort and weather dut - in the North Atlantic and then as relief flagship for the Atlantic Fleet. Completing the General Line Coiu ' se in 1947, he was assigned as operations and Executive Officer in the cruiser OAKLAND until 1949. After graduating from the Naval War College he then served in the staffs of Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet and Destroyer Flotilla ONE. From Mai-ch 1955 until July 1957 he commanded the destroyer J. W . THOMASON in the Pacific. After a toiu- in the Strategic Plans Division of the Chief of Naval Oiierations, he was tile Head of SEATO plans for the Commander in Chief I ' acifie. Upon graduation from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in July 1903, he conmianded the Ocoanographic Survey ship USS MAURY on Pacific dutj- from July 1963 to Aug ist 19(i4. He then served as Current Operations Officer to Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet imtil July 19GG. He assumed command of Destroyer Sciuack-on NINETEEN in August of 19GG.

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COMDESRON 19 ENLISTED STAFF RMCS HALE Jt ' J SD2 CONDE SPCM HOLLIS RM2 FRERICHS YNl GREGORY YN:i BABICKY CYN3 PRUDEN CYN3 BOWERS TN SO LIS