Yofuri wrote:


IIRC, every CO of TRIPOLI from 1964 to 1982 went on to two stars with
the exception of CAPT Collie Haynes, a former POW who was in poor health
at the time. It was quite an honor list, including Willie Nyberg,
Julian Lake, Chuck McGrail and others whom I forget.

Perhaps this helps; taken from a 1993 ship's brochu

66-67 Hank Suerstedt
67-68 Bill Adams
68-69 Don Shelton
69-70 Vince O'Rourke
70-71 Paul Hatley
71-72 Jim Gammon
72-74 Warren Lockwood
74-75 Cecil Kempft
75-77 Lee Levenson
77-79 Al Smith
79-81 Collins Haines
81-82 Chuck McGrail
82-84 Tom Cliff

I show Lake as being JFK's skipper (69-70) and Nyberg had
Kearsarge(CVS-33) in 66-67.

I was really sadden to learn of McGrail's passing a few years back; his
squadron command tour had been VF-96, and had the opportunity to meet
him while doing research on that squadron's history.

MW