USS Cole (DDG 67) Virtual Tour - 20 years After The Terrorist Bombing

On October 12th, 2020 the Navy will observe the 20th Anniversary of the terrorist attack on USS Cole (DDG 67) in the Gulf Aden. As we #Remember67 take a tour the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer today, as she continues her mission in support of our nation's national defense.
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Milham
Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic

[@automandan]

I think once the USS Cole is retired they should make her a museum ship. She should be preserved and honored. Out of respect for the sailors who lost they're lives during that fateful day when she was hit. And also to the sailors who fought to keep her afloat

[@EricDKaufman]

I watch this video and I think the same thing. There is just soooooo much here. The ship probably still has another 25 years in her, so any type of commission or non-profit to petition the USN for her purchase and preservation as a museum ship is premature, but I hope people remember that far in the future and she isn't recycled into razor blades.

[@devin5139]

No time soon, that's for sure.

[@marcziegenhain8420]

Yes and not the way they did it with the two Enterprises by wracking them.

[@Mightymite1]

Museum ships are by the people. Theyneed to show that they care take care of the ship and raise the funds to buy it.

[@jmooney70]

Thank you for this tour of the USS Cole. As a USS Cole Plankowner (1995 -1998) and a former Damage Controlman Petty Officer , I am thankful that the Navy and the Cole’s crew continue to honor my shipmates that lost their lives.

[@jjaagg5050]

Hard to believe it happened 20 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Thank you for the tour. God Bless our sailors!

[@markpeters9932]

I was in the US NAVY for 7yrs onboard the USS John L Hall FFG-32 as an Administration Officer 0-3 Liutanat. I was on a Mediterranean Cruise when my ship got the dreaded red phone call from both the US NAVY Secretary and then the VP of the US about the USS Cole. My ship rendezvoused in Cairo Egypt on a floating dry dock that had the USS Cole on it. And my orders from the US NAVY Secretary and VP of the US were to personally be the lead ship and escort the USS Cole to Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula MS where the ship was dry docked and repaired to readness status

[@kevinlance1813]

Thanks Navy for the content. US Navy veteran myself. Makes me proud to see our shipmates carrying on with the mission. Thanks and best wishes to COLE and all who serve onboard her.

[@williamsanders5066]

Fair Winds and Following Seas shipmates. Sailed most of the world's oceans and Seas in my 21 year naval career.

[@puddinglover1000]

I’m a GSE finishing A School in about a month. I can’t wait to get to experience ship life. Go Navy!

[@oscartotesautolivier9856]

Success...!!! Fair winds & Following Seas...

[@williamsanders5066]

Best of luck Shipmate.

[@puddinglover1000]

William Sanders thanks brother🙏🏽

[@williamsanders5066]

@@puddinglover1000 You're welcome. What ship are you headed to upon graduation?

[@puddinglover1000]

William Sanders I’m not sure yet, hopefully in the next couple of weeks I’ll get my orders. I’ve been in a school for about 10 months though.

[@garyhaber333]

Can't believe its been 20 yrs. I was enlisted and serving in the Med at the time when the accident on the Iowa happened. And then, once again, when I was stationed in the Med later in my career, this happened. RIP to all of those fellow sailors that lost their lives.😪🇺🇲

[@frankmcgee3213]

This is one of the best produced Navy videos I’ve seen. Well done LTJG B! MMCM(SS) Ret.

[@tetsuoswrath]

I love seeing this kind of content from the Navy. 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇲. :{

[@danieldunlap4077]

This happened the day after I turned 21. I was with VFA-195 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. I remember the first class mess immediately starting a collection to for the families impacted by the attack.

[@Joshp786]

I remember seeing this in high school, and seeing this video brought tears to my eyes, the love that the men and women who serve is truly astonishing. Thank you all

[@wesflash1]

I was an instructor in Dam Neck, VA when the Cole was hit. I had a previous student newly aboard and a colleague who rotated to sea on his way to the Cole when it happened. Everyone was stunned. I am in no way taking away from, or diminishing 9/11, but I didn't know someone there, but I did know someone on the Cole. It was different knowing someone there, the potential they had possibly being taken away before they had a much of a chance to reach that potential. Thankfully, the Cole and her crew have had an impact on damage control readiness across the fleet, just like the Stark, and many others.

[@retnav92]

BZ on the video in remembering the fallen crewmembers and survivors. Tour was interesting, and glad to see the DC ship schematics and an "old school" grease pencil are still used in DC Central, the way we used to do it. Still wondering about sea-going sailors wearing cammies though. USN Ret'd '92

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

I remember when the Cole was bombed. My battle group replaced them in the Gulf. It hits home as I knew people on the Cole that survived and some became apart of the crew on my ship.

[@rubenbalino6252]

Very impressive bridge quite different than when I was a conning officer on the older CG and Spruance class DDs.

[@supremepartydude]

Thank you guys for what you do

[@lancecahill5486]

Let's make sure that what happened to the USS Cole never happen again.

[@fnln544]

Blessings to the past namesake of Marines, Sgt. Cole, USMC. And the past Naval heroes who fell given the terrorist attack. Lives lost given the attack on our nation. An Army, military police, lieutenant colonel.

[@johnnyroxx8513]

17 gold stars.....for a committed job well done.

[@andymckane7271]

Thank you to all of you who serve aboard USS COLE and in the armed forces of the United States of America. Excellent video! Go Navy!

[@dylanperry239]

Thank you to all have served, gave all to serve, and too who currently serve.

[@cpace4031]

I remember it like yesterday. Fair winds and following seas shipmates.

[@ChandlerBrown13]

I went to high school with Chief Costelow’s son. Very nice family. Very sad what happened that day.

[@stephenbritton9297]

I remember when news of the attack broke, I just had a feeling I knew someone on board. I was right, a JO who had graduated 2 years before me from Maine Maritime was serving onboard. He was lucky to survive, and like his shipmates must have put in a lot of tireless hours to get the good ship home.

[@robertmobley7678]

I worked in material sourcing at Northrop Grumman/Ingalls when the Cole was bought to the shipyard for repairs. I did the drawings that tracked what was being removed and where to new equipment was before reinstallation. When I also did Pipe and ventilation drawings during her construction in the 90's. The Cole is I my thoughts every time I send an e-mail, I look at my phone, laptop ect. On each device I have a picture of the Cole and with every e-mail where I have my name the saying "Always remember the U.S.S Cole", the ship hit a special place in my heart that I will always remember until the day I leave this world. I have memorabilia from the ship, braded cap, mugs, coins, a full (Red) wind suit and hundreds of pictures of the damage right after she was attacked which I used to make a power point about the history behind the name. As all ways "All ways remember the U.S.S Cole ".

[@stevedeutsch1410]

Thank you for this excellent video. I am so proud of you all.

[@mikemalay2880]

I I served on the USS Cole from 2000to 2003. I was a ht3 thank you for remembering “our ship” so many if asked don’t know “uss cole”

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

As they say, Never say die.

[@justachipn3039]

This Old Carrier Vet Says *HooYah USS Cole DDG-67 Well Done !!!*

[@johnmcnaught7453]

Well Done !

[@shannonpace9433]

I helped build the USS COLE. I worked in sheet metal at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula Mississippi. I built the intakes for the engines and the generators and ran some air duct.

[@PantherActualOfficial]

I was born in Pascagoula. I worked as a hull board insulator for a short time myself

[@crazydrummer181]

My dad did as well. He was a welder at the time.

[@johnnyroxx8513]

ALL OF YOU HAVE MY SINCEREST THANK YOU FOR AHOD.....AT A TIME WHEN SHE (HE)COULD HAVE WENT.....HUZZAH!

[@ThomasMusings]

Incredible. Thank you for the tour.

[@ELCADAROSA]

Nice tour. Your CCS is really different from the CCS onboard my ship, USS Kidd (DDG-993). The consoles were much larger, with analog gauges, mechanical push buttons, and levered throttles. The Electric Plant Control Console (EPCC) was similar in nature, though smaller. And the Damage Control Console (DCC) featured a silhouette of the ship with indicators for alarm sensors in different parts of the ship, as well as push button control of all six fire pumps. Good grief! You call that a helm? 😁 In my day, the wheel was larger, and the integrated throttles and propeller pitch control used a pair of levers. (Side note - I was one of two qualified as “Lee Helm” during the 1987 Persian Gulf tanker escort operation) Again, nice tour! Keep up the great work, and never forget the “why”. GSE1 Newhall (Ret.) USS Kidd (DDG-993) Active duty: 1983 - 1989 Reserves: 1989 - 2019

[@chloehennessey6813]

Class of 2022!!!

[@Fyp21]

Thank you for the Virtual Tour of USS COLE DDG67 my thoughts go to the sailors who lost their lives that horrible day

[@Slygolem1]

5 DUTY SECTIONS ON A DDG!? We ran 5 section on drydock, port and starboard at sea, and 4 section when moored to the pier and that’s on a carrier.

[@mikemacch]

Very touching tears, from a proud Navy vet!!

[@JoeKondis]

It was like yesterday seeing the USS Cole being towed in. I cant remember if it was after or before Westpac.

[@iowa61]

Well done video and proper tribute to a great ship and her gallant crew. One of the plaques in the Hall of Heroes has a typo at 4:18: "Transversing" the P-Way" should be "Traversing." A nit, but easy to fix.

[@jimbeck553]

Reading Front Burner by Kirk Lippold right now.

[@carlozalex]

I was in boot camp when a chief told me about attack on USS Cole.

[@PantherActualOfficial]

Hooyah Pascagoula! ( my hometown )

[@johnknapp952]

Having served aboard many Navy ships many years ago, one thing about this video that struck me as odd was the number of security locks on the doors. Generally only spaces that contained classified material would have security locks and a safe for the material. I worked in one on the USS Kitty Hawk. Why spaces like the Oil Lab and General Workshop would need one is beyond me. The only thing locked spaces like this is doing is delaying access during an emergency.

[@moisesperez4605]

Totally agree with your comment, at certain parts of the ship it is a hazard

[@daveblais673]

Why would anyone give a thumbs down. Give your head a shake.

[@micmac1121]

Far from retired my friends unless she is an ambassador for the Navy. Memorial Day 2023 in NYC and she was here.

[@lonner98]

Back in 2002. I had a buddy that who was a MR on the Cole. I went and took a tour of that beautiful ship. I was stationed on the Eisenhower at the time. We were in the Newport News ship yards. So it was cool to tour a ship the was sea worthy.

[@jimbeck553]

I did two Tiger cruises on the Stennis. Awesome!!

[@SurfCityVideo]

Much respect.....

[@KELLYTOOLZ]

Mt brothers ship the Duluth arrived to aid when this happened... he told a sad & scary story of what they saw...

[@bigfish1026]

RIP to the fallen.

[@julia2k8]

B.I.H to the 17 sailors 🔥🔥

[@jeffreyrichardson]

flash backs of the sea swept waxed decks a courtesy johnnas nursery

[@rvail136]

The Chief's Mess...when I was on the USS Guam, they called that the "Goat Locker"...as tradition on sailing ships was that sheep and goats were kept in the Chief's mess...as they were the only one's trusted to not slaughter and eat the ships goats...or so I was told. Not sure how true that is...but it's ahellofastory!

[@paulconnors2078]

P-way! The term we used at OCS in Newport, RI. Oscar Co. Class 82005. Hard to believe the attack on USS COLE is now 20 years ago. Are you an OCS grad. LTJG?

[@brunofernandes2181]

They don’t Talk about the French commandos who rescued uss Cole injured soldiers. I was one of them , we bring them back to the Da188 french airforce in Djibouti , protect them against the propalestinian demonstration. They were escorted to the hospital . We never Forget.

[@WalterCruz-USA]

Number 1 USA.🇺🇸🦅 God bless América.🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻

[@Zagoreni02A]

Question, why Flight I Burke's didn't receive hangar, like flight IIA's?

[@pimpnamedadonis5457]

He’s no longer GSM1 but now he is GSMC

[@aaronicantsay1179]

My step dad was on the USA cole

[@aaronicantsay1179]

Uss Cole

[@12352rambo]

He made chief 2 years? Damn

[@yaboiimarc9857]

88 not 98

[@12352rambo]

Yaboii Marc oh yea makes sense lmao

[@oldfucker68]

Nobody makes Chief in two years.

[@riff2072]

Congratulations on the promotion to Lieutenant.

[@nasirbaxtron948]

#67 remember the lost heroes

[@mustang9279]

Remember USS Liberty

[@michaelgay6032]

Boatswain run it all!! 91 -99 AD -37

[@rjust2297]

And thank you to the sailors that sacrifice themselves in the Cole tragedy. Never forget. Pixel you know who once a date LOL 😆

[@ShowemRight]

The Navy should build the next fleet of ships to incorporate polyethylene foam inserts(the stuff that keeps life preservers, and pool noodles afloat). Polyethylene foam maintains buoyancy, if you weld a 1 inch thick steel 10' cubed box with an open hatch and drop it in the ocean, that cube block would sink to the bottom once it's filled with water in minutes. Take that same cube with the open hatch and surround it with 4 " thick of polyethylene foam wrap, and drop it in the ocean, that 10 foot cubed 1" thick steel cube will stay afloat with the hatch open allowing water to fill. Think about it, a 7 ounce pool noodle can keep a 250 pound man afloat. the benefits of polyethylene foam is that they're multi cellular air bubbles comprised, and enclosed within the polyethylene membrane that is perfect for buoyancy. Go Navy.

[@j2dagriffs]

do it burn tho

[@ShowemRight]

@@j2dagriffs theres additives that can be added to polyethylene to make it fire retardant

[@cornbread5144]

*** @3:27 Windows 7 ?

[@UltraMagaFan]

Its cool this ship is still in service and god bless the crew and the 17 men that lost their lives but I wanna know how the hell they let those stupid ass terrorists get close enough to the amount of damage they did in the first place.

[@hudsondonnell444]

Taxi! 👍

[@luish19779]

Minute 7:27 that looks like torpedo attack...

[@Joesolo13]

It practically was. It was a small boat loaded with c4 that went suicide bombed the side of the ship. A torpedo's essentially the same thing all considered, just without a pilot.

[@gogogagaoogabooga4245]

Not the us navy using windows XP.

[@chatlog]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@clash3583]

noice

[@RBFR01]

If an unidentified unauthorises vessel comes near the USS Cole it should be automatically shot and destroyed. The explosion of the ship would have never had happened if the ship had a safe guard perimiter.

[@YoutubeHesabim1]

:))) AK AND YEŞİL

[@rjust2297]

I'm in love 😍💯🇺🇲🙏🤞⚓☠️🍀🥁🎯. I'm so old I don't know what any of that means. Gee whiz. Beautiful lady in motion I suppose 😜. If you would have been in the bar that night Tom Cruise walk in that chick would have been done ✅

[@iamdavism4163]

Windows 7 /// 3:08

[@grandfathergeek]

Totally no disrespect but the LT is totally doing an “Amy Farrah Fowler “ look

[@luish19779]

Pls dont give too many info to the enemy. God bless everyone on board

[@oldfucker68]

They aren't giving anything out that isn't public knowledge.

[@crazydrummer181]

Either you seriously underestimate US Navy intelligence or you’re just a bit naive.

[@uno_1762]

Do they accept asian sailors?

[@crazydrummer181]

Duh

[@knunyabeasewhacks8744]

Great video despite the mouth diapers.

[@craigoutdoors30]

Sailors had to unload their guns that day - so they didn't offend anyone. Military swamp. Drain it.

[@fixedgearfever69]

They seem to have enough women on board.

[@keithcianci1934]

The CMC can hardly speak English, leading the way forward in another language. He was able to read his script on the third grade reading level. He is the example of the Navy’s advancement selection process - it’s not what you know but who you know!

[@goobfilmcast4239]

STFU !.....Whose to say he hasn't had 4.0 performance and aced all his advancement exams..... you don't like the way he talks???? F-U !!! .... I served with lots slick, BS talking A-holes who would most likely get someone injured or killed when the chips were down

[@legionmartin]

Hopefully the Cole learned its lesson from when is was bombed, damaged and taken out of commission before.