Hooper (DE 1026) - Naval Cruise Book

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CAPTAINS MESSAGE This is a book of people! As we read through it this year and next year, and the pictures start us reminiscing about these seven months, the deeds will get larger with every telling, the weather will become rougher or calmer than it really was, that division PO will look meaner or nicer than he ever was, the hours ashore or on watch much shorter than they actually were. But that is the joy in reminiscing. That is the reason for a cruise book. Each of us can add his own caption to each picture because we were there together. We saw the same things differently, from different points of view, and this book needs one of us to explain it. It is nothing by itself; it is quite dull unless each of us sits down and adds his own point of view as he leafs through the pages. So it is with a ship. A ship is people. No shipbuilder or navy yard can turn out a complete weapons system or ship. They provide the materials in certain form but it is the people, in careful combination, who make the ship. We were HOOPER during these past seven months and this is our book. C. E. GURNEY III

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t Tfi.4 expected tour in W ■June 19C 4. During received her l ' iur1 h John W. Walden, I Western Pacifi including the addition of a helicopter flight deck and now electronic gear for detecting sub- marines. Again, Hooper trained as a the Ready Hunter Killer Group and departedfor the Western Pacific in October lUi ' ,2. Cpon returning to San Diego on I s June L963, H started a ret raining cycle in preparation forthe rPAC to ii 1 9 his training period, she ommanding i ifi icer, LCDH . i pi 11 returning from the :, the HOOPER began a period of rest, recreation, and local operations that continued until sheen! Long Beach Naval Shipyard in July 196 . During this period, LCDH C.E. Gurney 111, relieved l.CDR Walden as commanding of! It was also during this period that an enclosed bridge, DASH (Drono Anti-submarine Varfare Helicopter) and advanced eletronic counter var- fare measures gear was installed. After the yard period, HOOPER began an intensive train- ing period preparing for its sixth deployment to the Western Pacific. The HOOPER departed San Diego, California in January 19t ' . visiting Hong Kong and parts in Jan . I the Philippine- mcl Thailand and after seeing duty off the coast ui Vietnam, HOOPER reti to th ' in July l!)i -— Some o! the many ports that HOOPER has visited since commissioning include capulco, Pearl Harbor, Midway Island, Okinaw i, H;iv, Manila, ( ebu i iu fRepublic of the Philip- pines), Hong Kong, (iuam, the Japanese p i ' i Voko- ■ ' mi, Mat ?u am i and o ri tus Australian pi rts, Bang I liailand.

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CDR Charles E. Gurney III was born on May 30, 1930 in Chester, Pennsylvania and attended various schools in Virginia and California. Upon graduation from U.S. Naval Academy in 1952, he was ordered aboard the U.S.S. NOA (DD-841) where he served in the Engineering and Gunnery Departments. Since that time he has served on destroyers and mine sweepers with the exception of a tour of duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel (1957-1959) and post graduate studies at Stanford University (1962-1964). He has served as Gunnery Officer of the U.S.S. NOA (DD-841), Executive Officer of the U.S.S. RHEA (MSCO-52), Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. HORNBILL (M SO- 19), and Operations Officer of the U.S.S. FARRAGUT (DLG-6). Prior to assuming command of the U.S.S. HOOPER (DE-1026), CDR GURNEY served as Executive Officer of the I .S.S. LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8). CDR GURNEY holds a Bachelor of Science Degree froi . . Naval Academy and the Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from Stanford University. He is authorized to wear the European Occupation Modal, I Service Modal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, China Service Medal, American Defense Medal and Vietnam Service Medal. CDR and Mrs. GURNEY, the former Ann Lowrey Malstrom of Bethesda, Maryland, are the parents of two daughters, Laur Karon 11, and two sons, Chip 8 and Tom 7. They reside at 345 Alameda Boulevard, Coronado, California.