Lynde McCormick (DDG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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F T n i .T l . ll of if il: Q. in ei. if ip- iii. iii, llcf. duiief :e Ct lull 0 ithfilf gxitii NHC A i qsill ' r uflmni JACK W. BOLLER COMMANDER U.S. NAVY Commanding Officer USS LYNDE MC CORMICKUDDG-SJ I6 September 1964 - 2I April I966 On April 21, 1966, at the U,S. Naval Station, Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, CDR John A. McCOOK, USN, relieved CDR Jack W. BOLLER, USN, as Commanding Officer, USS LYNDE MC CORMICK fDDG-87. A RECEPTION WAS HELD ON THE FORECASTLE FOL- LOWING THE CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY x CDR BOLLER received his commission from the Naval ROTC Program at the University of Southern California in October 1945. He served on the destroyers WILLIAM C. COLE, FRED' T. BERRY, WALKERg was an instructor at the Fleet Sonar School, Key Westg and attended Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, before he was assigned as Commanding Officer of USS FORCE QMSO-4455. CDR BOLLER was selected for the Nuclear Propulsion Program in July 1957, later serving as Project Officer for USS TRITON QSSN-5863. Then in August 1960 he was assigned as Navigator for the USS LONG BEACH QCGN-93, after which he attended the Armed Forces Staff College. Prior to his command of LYNDE MC CORMICK, he was the Executive Officer of the USS WORDEN fDLG-189, He is presently ser- ving as a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D,C.

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r, A Q , USS LYNDE MC CORMICK QDD-83 is named f Admiral Lynde Dupuy MC CORMICK. U.S Navor a graduate of U,S. Naval Academy, class of 19135, Admiral Mc coaivuck had a varied and distin- guished career. He commanded the destroyer KENNEDYg was qualified in submarines, and durin World War II served as Admiral NlMlTZ'S Wag Plans Officer and as Commander Battleship Divi- sion Three, After the war he served successively as Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, Commanderin Chief, U,S, Alantic Fleet, Supreme Allied Cgmmander, Alantic fNAT0y. and President of the U.S. Naval War College: Admiral MC CORMICK died on active duty in August 1956 while serving in the latter billet LYNDE MC CORMICK is the first ship in the. U.S. Navy to bear this name, LYNDE MC CORMICK was built on the Great Lakes at Bay City, Michigan, by Defoe Ship- building Company. Her keel was laid on April 4, 1958, and she was launched on July 28, 1959. She was commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1961, being sponsored by Mrs. Lynde D. MC CORMICK, widow of the distinguished officer for whom the ship is named, LYNDE MC CORMICK arrived in her home- port of San Diego, California, on September 16, 1961, after a trip from Boston via the Panama Canal. She deployed on November 19, 1962, for her first tour of duty with the U.,S. Seventh Fleet, returning to San Diego on June 15, 1963. Her second deployment to WESTPAC began on August 5, 1964, and lasted until February 6, 1965. It was during her third WESTPAC Cruise from March 1, 1966, through August26, 1966,hoWever,that LYNDE MC CORMICK really proved herself under actual combat conditions. LYNDE Mc CORMlCK's operations during this cruise in support of the Vietnam situa- tion Were intensive, continuing and varied. She was assigned to duties as Naval Gun- fire Support Ship to provide assistance to U.S. and Vietnamese ground forces, and as missile air defense escort ship for our fast attack carriers HANCOCK, CONSTELLATION, KITTY HAWK, and RANGER, participating in the rescue of their downed pilots. In addition, she handled the double duties of TOMCAT and surface surveillance co- ordinator while on station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Again, on short notice and without benefit of the usual twelve days of exten- sive indoctrination, LYNDE MC CORMICK was assigned Search and Rescue fSARl duties 'off the coast of Vietnam, performing most creditably.

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COMMAND! G OFFICER JOHN A. MCCOOK COMMANDER U.S. NAVY CDR MCCOOK received his commission from the U,,S. Naval Academy with the class of 1948-A, Early in his career he served on the destroyers PURDY, MACOMB, and WILLIAM C, LAWE, the cruiser ATLANTA, the last battleship USS WISCONSIN, and the minesweepers GULL and CURLEW, commanding the latter during the Korean Conflict. After three years of graduate study, including two years at the U,,S. Naval Post-Graduate Engineering School at Monterey, California, he was assigned to the Bureau of Weapons in the Navy's POLARIS Special Projects Office. CDR MCCOOK subsequently commissioned the USS MacDONOUGH as Executive Of- ficer, where he was, prior to completing a full tour, assigned as the first Weapons Officer of the USS ALBANY, the first conventionally powered all guided missile cruiser. From the ALBANY he went to his last assignment before assuming com- mand of LYNDE MC CORMICK, as the Executive and Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Surface Missile Sys- tems Project Office in the Bureau of Naval Personnel.