1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
She was commissioned in 1998. Donald Cook was the subject of the book The Yard by Michael S. Saunders. She is named after Donald Cook, a Vietnam War Prisoner of War who died in captivity. Cook also fired the first Tomahawk missile during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
External Links
USS Donald Cook webpage (http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg75.htm)
Flight I ships:Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross
Flight II ships:Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter
DonaldCook was the son of Walter and Helen Cook and the brother of Walter and Irene (Walter passed away in 1960 and Irene Coleman still lives in N.Y.).
Cook was taken to a Viet Cong POW camp in the jungles of South Vietnam near the Cambodian border where he quickly established himself as the senior American (even though he was not) and provided guidance and strength to his fellow prisoners.
Cook was subjected to physical abuse and isolation but he resisted his captor's efforts to break his will and was used as a "bad" example by his Communist guards.
DONALDCOOK is testing an incognito variant of the weapon that features, a light gray paint instead of the more target-friendly white version.
DONALDCOOK was commissioned on December 4, 1998 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Col. Cook was taken to a Viet Cong POW camp in the jungles of South Vietnam near the Cambodian border where he quickly established himself as the senior American (even though he was not) and provided guidance and strength to his fellow prisoners.
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