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USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke class destroyerUSS Lassen (DDG-82), an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers are built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The first ship was commissioned on 4 July 1991. The Arle in the United States NavyThe United States Navy USN is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. Navy consists of slightly fewer than 300 ships and over 4,000 operational aircraft. It has over a half million men and women on active or ready re.

She was commissioned in 1998. Donald Cook was the subject of the book The Yard by Michael S. Saunders. She is named after Donald CookDonald Gilbert Cook ( 9 August 1934 8 December 1967) was a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and a Medal of Honor recipient. Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York. He held as a Prisoner of War by the Viet Cong in the Republic of Vietnam from 31 Dece, a Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on Prisoner of War who died in captivity. Cook also fired the first Tomahawk missile during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.