Lynde McCormick (DDG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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i z Axim- r A XNisT '1'P'rf F Congratulations!! 3 4 The Captain casts a watchful eye on the midship station. h I N 5 MMMmmm... S 5 l W Our senior messcook. That's quite a stack of bills. This is close supervision of gunnery exercises. Reading the morning FOX.

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Commander Rowden graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the class of 1952. He served as Weapons Officer on the Destroyer USS YARNALL for his first tour of duty operating in the Western Pacific during the Korean Conflict. After a short period as Executive Officer, Commander Rowden became Commanding Officer of the coastal minesweeper Uss CORMORANT. His first assignment ashore was to the Bureau of Naval Personnel in the enlisted distribution division. 'Commander Rowden returned to sea duty as Executive Officer of the destroyer escort USS LESTER before attending the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, California in June, 1961 for a two-year Ordnance Engineering Course. Subsequently he became Commanding Officer of the destroyer escort USS BAUER serving as a unit of the Seventh Fleet in operations connected with the Vietnamese War. Prior to recent studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, Commander Rowden served as a Personal Aide to Commander in Chief, Pacific. In March, 1968, Commander Rowden became Commanding Officer of USS LYNDE MCCORMICK as the ship was steaming in the Sea of Japan during the USS PUEBLO incident. Commander Rowden is a native of Vermont. He is married to the former Sarah Sumner of Rockford, Illinois. They have a daughter, Sarah Jane and two sons, Thomas Sumner and John William.

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Leland S. Beedle, LCDR, USN Lieutenant Commander Beedle enlisted in the U.S, Navy in January, 1947 and served in USS 'FACONIC IAGC-172 and USS RANDOLPH ICVA-152 as an Elec- tronic Technician. Commissioned as an Ensign LDOITQ from Chief Electronic Technician in 1957, Mr. Beedle was assigned as CIC Officer in USS R. E. KRAUSE CEDD-8491 charged with the conduct of all Research and Development Projects prosecuted by that experi- mental destroyer. Moving to the Staff of Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force in 1960, Mr. Beedle functioned as a Project Officer for the test and evaluation of Combat-Direction Systems for three years. In 1963, Mr. Beedle was assigned as the Techni- cal Director of the National Observatory of the United States. In 1966, Lieutenant Commander Beedle reported to Commanding Officer USS JOUETT as the ships first Operations Officer. In January, 1968, Mr. Beedle relieved Lieutenant Commander W. DONLAN as Execu- tive Officer, USS LYNDE MCCORMICK and served in that capacity during the second half of the ships third deployment to the combat zone off Vietnam. In the absence of Commander Rovvden in June and July of 1969, Mr. Beedle served as Commanding Officer, USS LYNDE MCCORMICK IActingj. Lieutenant Commander Beedle is a native of Illinois. He is married to the former Gene Marilyn Moss of Granite City, Illinois. They have one son, Michael Lee. Testing WESTPAC goody stowage during the Weekly compartment inspection. Capturing the entertainment for posterity. FANTAIL, BRIDGE. The XO's picture of Hong Kong - withvthe lens cover on. '