21 May 2020 USS Laboon Crew to Virtually Connect with Namesake City this Memorial Day The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) takes an interesting approach in the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) environment for the world to visit the ship through a virtual ship tour video...
31 March 2020 Naval Surface Force Atlantic Announces Sea, Shore Sailor of the Year Rear Adm. Roy I. Kitchener, Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT), announced Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Derek Rish as the 2019 Sea Sailor of the Year and Information Systems Technician 1st Class Chris Manley as the 2019 Shore Sailor of the Year, Mar. 30...
16 March 2020 Survivor, Sailor, Mother Inspires Daughters To Follow In Her Footsteps Oct. 12, 2000 is a day that will live in infamy for American Sailors who served and are serving aboard the USS Cole. Seventeen Sailors lost their lives that day and 38 were wounded when suicide terrorists exploded a small boat next to the destroyer off the coast of Yemen.For Petty Officer 2nd Class...
03 March 2020 Hershel “Woody” Williams Speaks With Sailors, Imparts Wisdom It’s not often that one gets to meet a living legend, one of the few remaining members of what many call “the greatest generation.” It’s a rare sight to see and hold a Medal of Honor, to feel its polished metal, to hear the story behind it, how it was earned and awarded by the President...
12 October 2019 USS Cole Honors their Heroes The guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) crew, past and present, gathered alongside families and guests today, to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the ships bombing...
07 January 2019 USCENTCOM confirms the death of Jamal al-Badawi Jamal al-Badawi was a legacy al Qaeda operative in Yemen involved in the USS Cole bombing. U.S. forces confirmed the results of the strike following a deliberate assessment process...
06 January 2019 CENTCOM Statement on Death of USS Cole Bombing Operative U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban released a statement Jan. 6 on the death of Jamal al-Badawi...
02 November 2018 Remembering Cole: One Sailor's Emotional Experience On a cold January day in Virginia, men and women of the guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook's (DDG 75) engineering department stood at attention both somber and quiet...
22 October 2018 USS Cole Attack Survivors Tour RTC's USS Trayer On the 18th anniversary of the attack, James and Heidi Thompson watched proudly as James, the oldest boy in a family that has grown to six children, graduated from boot camp Oct. 12, at Recruit Training Command (RTC)...
12 October 2018 Retired USS Cole Sailor remembers fallen shipm "Before there was a 9-11, there was a 10-12,” said Joe Pelly, a retired Navy senior chief petty officer who now works at NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support. Pelly is a Logistics Element Manager (LEM) in the Littoral Combat Ship Integrated Weapon Systems Team (LCS IWST).It has been 18 years since...