Lynde McCormick (DDG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE CO AND XO ON THE BRIDGE - THE NERVE CENTER OF THE SHIP ,, . X ,4 fyff , f QMWA, ,, WWA ' ,, EXECUTIVE OFFICER VIRGIL C HODGES LIEUTENANT U S NAVY LT HODGES enlisted in the Navy in July 1946 He soon made rate as an ETM3 after which he went to Sub School in New London He served on the submarines BLACKFIN PERCH, RONQUIL 'and the submarine tender SPERRY before becoming involved in the development of the REGULUS I missile system. As an ET1 he was the guided missile technician on the REGULUSI equipped USS TUNNY, one of the first guided missile submarines. In 1956 he was advanced to Chief Petty Officer. In March 1957 he went to Officers Candidate School in the Navy's lntergration Program. Upon commissioning, he served on the cruiser USS HELENA and as Weapons Officer on the destroyer USS PICKING, Prior to as- suming temporary duties as Executive Officer, LT HODGES served as LYNDE MC CORMICK's Weapons Officer.

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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.

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