| USS Cook service |  computer_jack(58/M/Selbyville Delaware) |
10/24/01 9:14 pm |
| My name is Jack Scott. I served aboard the Cook from 1965 to 1967
as an Electronics Technician. From there I went on to other commands and retired
as a Chief Electronisc Technician in 1984. This is a great idea, Andy. I would be very interested in any reunion of Cook sailers. |
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Hello Jack! Great to see your message on the message
board. I suppose you have been to the web site http://www.oocities.org/usscookapd130
I was on the Cook during the same period you were. Althought it has been many
years, I have now doubt I would recognize you instantly. I only have a couple
of photos of myself and need to get them posted. Below is an initial attempt at
a newsletter. Hopefully, at some point, we will have enough people and
organization to put out a regular monthly letter. I know the Weiss (APD 135)
and Carpilotti (APD136) have had several reunions. In the latter's case, they
have located 1200 former shipmates and have an Association. I see that you are
a geek, and this makes me very happy. I would like to have others with computer
skills involved in the web site/message board, etc., Always good to have
backup for a shared concern.
I have some other names that I need to post on the
bottom of the home page of previous crew. As you can see, the list is just kind
of helter skelter without any form of order. People have been sending me names
of persons they remember and I have been posting them there. Eventually, we
will probably need to arrange everything into tables or a data base. For now, I
have just been posting the name, rank/rate, time period aboard the Cook, email
address (trying to fool the spambots by inserting REMOVE in the email addresses)
and any web sites they may have. There are a few persons who I have email
addresses for who have not responded. Those addresses were taken off various
message boards. You will find some familiar names in the list of people below.
Especially, Sonarman Fred Long, and Al Braddy who were aboard during your time.
If you have any photos or momentos of the Cook you would be willing to share,
please send them to me. I have various email addresses. derangedlonerk@nixspamogdencanyon.com
is the one I use the most. Also, I invite everyone to participate in the Sea
Stories section by sending in email recollections, stories or ships
history. There are some big holes in the Ship's history.
I have been in contact with a fellow who is involved in
the USS Carpellotti APD 136 Association, and
he believes he has some ships logs of the Cook. They purchased a lot from the
government and we may have luck here. Here is a little tidbit of history that
was sent by Mr. Perry. "The sale of the Cook to National Metal Steel Corp. at
Terminal Island for scrapping was for the amount of $35,958." Al Braddy
believes the Ship's plaque was transferred to the USS Cook FF1043. If any of
you have one of the copies they sold in the ship's store, I would sure like a
photo of the logo on it.
Current state of the Web Site. Because Geocities uses a
weird method of determining bandwidth transfer (you are given a monthly amount
which is spread out on an hourly basis. If you have enough hits during a
particular hour, they shut your site down for an hour.), I have made some
changes. What I did was open another site at http://www.oocities.org/cookstories
I made the "Sea Stories" link on the home page go there. This way, all the
bandwidth isn't coming off the same site. If it ever gets big enough, we will
probably just get our own domain and put it on a private server. Some search
engines have listed us. Yahoo, Google, AOL and the DMOZ (Open project which
supplies searches to other sites) I have site submissions into Alta Vista,
Excite, Hot Bot, Lycos, Northern Light, and a few others. Getting listed is
tough, if you aren't willing to spend a couple hundred per site for a
submission, . . they are getting greedy. We have listings with www.warships1.com and www.vets.com I invite you to post the web site
URL on the various sites you visit and post on. Eventually, we will get the
word out and our fellow shipmates will find us. Looking forward to hearing
from you. Jim Anderson "ANDY" Riverside, Calif.
[Enclosed is the graphic I made for this news letter, if
anybody would like it.]
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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:35 AM
Subject: Test of Newsletter Hello everyone. As you can see, I am heading toward building a newsletter
for the Cook. Currently, we have a few people who have responded to the web
site and are listing their information on the web site. Not all the people who
have email addresses have responded. Some of the email addresses, I took from
message boards. I emailed them, but have not yet received replies.
So far, the people who I am in contact with are Sonarman Fred Long, SN
Donald Tetley, DC Al Braddy, and a lady married to a BT named Cindy Fryday.
(Cindy, could you send me your husband's full name, rank and rate when he left
the Cook? Also, if you could send me a picture of him during that period, it
will help. Thirty five years is a long time to remember.)
BT Fryday is suffering from Asbestosis and the family is trying to gather
information about exposure to the stuff, during his tour on the Cook, 61-62.
Some of you may have seen the new pages I posted called "Sea Stories"?
This was meant to be the X-rated section of the web site. (much of the X,
coming from Don Tetley) Anyone with photos of your saintly youth in Olongopo,
Yokuska, Hong Kong, etc. are encouraged to send them in. I would also like to
make that section a place where people can write stories about life on the
Cook. Just send the stories to me and I will fix any spelling errors, etc., and
post them. (Imagine, a Deck Ape correcting spelling errors, . . Who'd a
thought?)
The Message board on Yahoo isn't going over too well. I was hoping some of
you would join the message board club and post a message. The reason I say this
is because I have been in contact with a guy named Pops, who is the President of
the USS Mt. McKinley Assn. They have a board and it helps steer members into
their group. The Mt.Mac Assn. has gotten large enough that they are beginning
to have reunions with pretty good turn outs. There were a few guys I really
missed and a few I wanted to throw overboard. It would be interesting to get
together thirty five or so years later and see if I still feel the same. hehe.
Seeing as how, I am not the windmill I used to be, I think I would just buy them
a beer and call it good. The other nice thing about the message board is that
instead of relaying messages and stories between one or two people, everyone can
read them. Remember, you story has relevance to many other people who knew the
same people.
So far, everyone I've heard from has gone back in and done more than one
hitch. Fred Long was a skinny blonde headed Seaman out of Sonar A School, when
I knew him on the Cook. On the 66 Cruise, we had headed from P.I. to Japan and
got turned around, because we were running into a typhoon. The way back was
really rough. We were riding the trough most of the way. I was on the helm
that night and the ship took a 45 degree roll in each direction. 90 degrees
total. Fred was in the sonar shack in the pilot house while I was on the helm.
It rolled so hard, that I had to put one foot on the door of the sonar shack to
stand upright. In front of the helm was an inclinometer, and I saw it hit the
40 degree mark. There was some serious green water over the bridge. Fred left
the Navy as a ST1. He lives in Hollywood Florida
Al Braddy was a Damage Controlman (DC2) during mine and Fred's time
aboard. He has sent me some more names to put on the list. (I hope you will
try and fill in those names with rates and the approximate years the guys were
aboard) Al left the Navy as a Hull Technician First Class. Al lives in Mt.
Vernon Illinois
Don Tetley was a Seaman assigned to Deck Division before I got to
the Cook in late 65. He knew a lot of the deck gang who were old salts when my
seaman deuce butt showed up. Don made a full career and I am not sure what
rank/rate he retired as. He and his wife call Tampa Florida home, but Don works
for concerns which keep him moving around the world.
My story is pretty simple. In 1965 I started out as an immediate active
duty USNR and went right from boot camp in SD to the Cook. Did two years in
Deck Division under BM1 Ron Feistel. Was released from active duty in 1967.
At the beginning of 1968, I decided to go back in for another hitch. The plan
was to do two more active and re-up with six. I changed rates and went
airdale. At the end of my six, I was an AG3 (weather guesser). At that time, I
decided to get back out again and go back to school. in 1970.
I hope you guys will search for any old pictures and write some accounts
for the web site and message boards. The site is now listed by a couple of
search engines. Yahoo, AOL, and a couple of others. It is a long process
getting a site listed these days. You submit your site and someone has to visit
it before approving. Each search engine has their own submission form to fill
out. There are 3000 search engines in the world. The worse part is that there
is such a back log of requests that it can take several months to get listed, by
some of the major sites. Eventually, it will get to where any Cook sailor who
types USS Cook APD 130 into a search engine will find us immediately. My goal is
to find some others who can do some of this web work to help and assist in
maintaing the site. That way, it will not be dependent on one person to
continue on, should I not be able to do it anymore. It is about the Cook and I
fugure it belongs to all of us.
Enough of this rambling. This won't be a frequent thing, so I won't spam
your email boxes. Andy
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