COMMAND HISTORY

 

The following information displays the year-to-year history of  USS Brooke. Each year Brooke, as well as other naval commands, was required to submit a "Command History" to the Chief of Naval Operations. This chronological order of events documented the day-to-day operations that happened during the year as well as the location in which they occurred. 

As you look at the different browse through the files you will notice that in the early years, the history was fairly lengthy. Somewhere in the middle 70s, the reports became more compact, while still containing the pertinent information. Since all of the files were scanned from official documents (all declassified) they come in varying degrees of legibility (but still readable if you "zoom" in). You can trace the advances in technology (from Underwood typewriters to word processors) and even see some blue mimeographed copies (for you youngsters that was how we used to copy documents before printers).

As previously mentioned, all documents have been declassified. As you look as some of them you will notice that there are still some "black out" markings. I can only assume that there was still some information in there that was not for public dissemination. The year 1969 is missing and it is my understanding that the year was not submitted to Washington. Don't have a solid answer why other than the year is not on file. until recently I only had the years 79-82 in hard copy so they were scanned and could only be seen as an HTML page. Thanks to James O. Shannon (LT 79-80) who took the time to create the years 79 and 80 in MS Word, they can now be seen in that format.

I have made a correction to 1967 in that page 20 of the history indicated that Brooke had two "Babcock and Wilcox" boilers when in fact they were Foster Wheeler. I was able to make the change to the MS Word document but could not edit the PDF file (at least at this time). My thanks go to Mr. Bob Shvodian who worked 35 years as a civilian engineer in BUSHIPS/NAVSEC/NAVSEA Steam Boiler Code. Bob found the discrepancy and brought it to my attention.

My special thanks to Admiral P.J. Coady (LT 68-71), USN Ret. who made the contacts that allowed us to obtain these rare documents of Brooke.

I have provided two formats for you to look at the documents (except 79-82 which are HTML pages): Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF. Simply click on the format you wish to see. If you select PDF you will find 1966 combined with 1968.

1966 MS Word          1966 PDF

1967 MS Word          1967 PDF

1968 MS Word          1968 PDF

1970 MS Word          1970 PDF

1971 MS Word          1971 PDF

1972 MS Word          1972 PDF

1973 MS Word          1973 PDF

1974 MS Word          1974 PDF

1975 MS Word          1975 PDF

1976 MS Word          1976 PDF

1977 MS Word          1977 PDF

1978 MS Word          1978 PDF

1979 MS Word                  1979

1980 MS Word                  1980

1981

1982

1983 MS Word          1983 PDF

1984 MS Word          1984 PDF   

1985 MS Word           1985 PDF

1986 MS Word           1986 PDF

1987 MS Word          1987 PDF

1988 MS Word          1988 PDF

 

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