 I am Lieutenant Jugre Natalie Bore on the damage control assistant on board the ship and I'd like to welcome you all to the USS Cool. Let's go take a look. All right, so this is our flight deck What makes us different for a flight one DDG vices the flight two is we don't have any hangar base as you can see We do work with mh-60s sh-60s. We can do vert wraps on here packs transfers We can in-flight Refuel a helo if need be they can also land on deck and we can refuel them here as well This flight deck played a very large role after the bombing This was kind of the heartbeat in the hub for the crew this is where they ate and they slept several days in the Gulf of Aden Well, they were still fighting to keep the ship afloat So from here, let's take you guys all to our central control station CCS That's a great crew and this is the USS Cole So it's well known on a waterfront more than probably a lot of the ship But the term and warrior lives up to his expectations. I'm just glad to be a part of it All right, so welcome to a central control station or as we call it CCS As I said, this is the heartbeat the hub of engineering department. We've got our UCCs our universal controlling stations that are able to Control and observe everything that goes on in the plant So our EDO today our engineering duty officer is a GSM one Henderson And he'll be able to explain in more depth of what goes on and what him and his sailors do on a daily basis GSM one Henderson engineering duty officer for the day on board USS Cole due to section five of five I'll be introducing you into the universal control consoles. This right here is the heartbeat of the hull of the ship We have four of these consoles throughout the ship two here one in each main engine room They're factors for the engineering department by being able to allow us to monitor and start stop equipment from CCS as far as auxiliaries electrical controls electrical distribution and Proposal plan they're going to be basically the eyes and the ears for the control console operators for CCS Whether import or underway oxygen right? This way I'll point you around to the DC plates, right? This is like a Google Maps giant poster of the ship each layer of the ship from 05 all the way down to The fifth deck below Whenever we have casualties And we're fighting trying to defend the ship in order to properly see what the watch stand to see because we don't have cameras throughout all Of the spaces we have to be able to navigate and plot through these systems to help assist the watch standards at all times When they're trying to defend the ship this right here is also going to aid us in our damage control efforts throughout the ship This is our damage control console where we start and stop fire pumps ventilation to help these smoke spaces whether we Have to open up drain valves to help be water in case of flooding events and so All of this stuff is controlled in port by one watch stand and that about wraps up everything for the engineering department central control station slash damage control station and Thank you for your time Another awesome piece of coal history that we maintain on board of engineering logs from October 2000 pretty humbling to keep This box here right in DC central and I come here. I'm plotting Directing our sailors where to go. I always have this box to remind myself of our co-heroes who kept this ship afloat And what our job and our mission is to do on board? So from now we'll take you guys to our Hall of Heroes All right, so welcome to the Hall of Heroes as you saw when we entered through the medical P way I removed my cover Tradition on board coal through the medical P way our Hall of Heroes and the chiefs mess P way We remove our covers to honor our 17 sailors This is kind of central location of the blast site It's also the entrance to the Hall of Heroes to get on to the mess decks We have our 17 sailors right here and on the deck. We have our 17 gold stars. We walk past every single day And again, this is another heartbeat central location for the ship and for us sailors So these 17 shipmates of ours they're never far from our minds at all It's a humbling experience to walk through this P way remove the covers always reminds us What we need to do and what our focus is on a daily basis. So from here, I'll take you on to the mess decks All right, so welcome to the mess decks. I want to show some of the significant flags We have displayed on the bulkhead here. This first flag. I was flying on 12 October the morning We were bombed very significant key since like as we had it flying for nine straight days The captain commander look for the time He didn't want to retire the colors until all of our shipmates were recovered the second flag from 9 December 2002 That's when the remains of our fallen shipmates were committed to the sea and that was the flag that was strapped over their casket This third flag here from 9 July 2006 And that was the first time we returned to the Gulf of Aden since we were bombed as somebody who was deployed on board coal And been through the Gulf of Aden on coal. It's a very significant Time whenever you go through that area of the world something that we never forget as as Coal sailors of the sacrifices that our 17 sailors and all of our coal heroes made to keep coal afloat When they were in the Gulf of Aden So also displayed on our mess decks We have a shadow box of Sergeant Darrell S. Cole in the medals he received While in action, but most notably we have got the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart which he was posthumously awarded I for more information on Sergeant Cole. Here's a short video Sergeant Darrell Samuel Cole United States Marine Corps who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor the nation's highest award for Valor and bravery On February 19th 1945 during the battle with Japanese forces at Iwo Jima 24 year old Sergeant Cole led his machine gun section assured in the assault of the island When one of his squads became pinned down by enemy fire Cole armed only with a pistol and hand grenades crawled forward destroying two gun emplacements with the grenades After the destruction of the enemy positions Sergeant Cole was killed by an enemy hand grenade while returning to lead his squad again Sergeant Cole had also seen action at Quazaline, Saipan and Timmy All right, now I'd like to take you guys to the chief's mess cause Ellis Cove All right before we get to the chief's mess I want to show you guys that this is at the port side of our ship and this is where the blast occurred We had a 40 by 60 foot pole blasted into our ship and the mess ex right here is the central location of that blast The deck beneath us all the way through the overhead was completely destroyed and as we walked past the chief's mess down below We have the general workshop our main one engine room in the oil lab those three spaces were also Heavily destroyed and that's where we suffered our greatest damage and these were For the majority of our casualties were that day. So I'll take you on to the chief's mess As I said chief's mess we call it Costello's Cove named after ETC Costello Chief on board on 12 October 2000 he was eating lunch that day when the blast occurred and for more on chief Costello on our chief's mess like and juice you to command mass chief raise the less Good morning and welcome aboard USS Cole. We are right now inside the chief's mess Which have been dedicated to our shipmate Richard Costello rich joined the Navy back in 1988 and In a few years he was selected to the rank of chief petty officer Oddly enough that is the year where on October 12th The ship was bombed in Yemen and we lost our shipmate chief Costello In our humble grace to remember his memory we dedicate this mess We feel every day the spirit of those that lost their life on that faithful day and It brings the crew together to accomplish greatness and to be true To the fighting spirit of the Navy to uphold honor courage and commitment to its highest standards All right, so I'd like to take you guys down to the entrance of our main engine room our oil lab and our general workshops You can get an idea of the gravity of the blasts and the damage that we suffered So right here. This is entrance to main engine room number one This is where we had a few sailors that day as well as our oil lab This were our MPA at the time. I'll attend your grade triplet. He was working on the morning of the 12th And then over here. I've got our general workshop. You can see we have H2 Claude Souther's plaque probably displayed on our shop and my sailors our DCs and HCs take a lot of pride in What H2 did for the ship as well as again all of our 17 heroes and coal sailors All right, and now I'd like to take you guys up to our pilot house where we drive the ship I'm OS1 Kenny out of handy being on the USS Cole Known the history behind it. It means a lot to me It kind of brings history full circle because most of the time we think about History being a long time ago, but I'm I'm living in it I'm carrying on the tradition of what USS Cole stands for Welcome to the pilot house This is where we drive the ship and navigate the ship and first stop I want to show you is our chart cable. We used to use paper charts now We've made the transition to electronic chart display. So we have here is our voyage management system This is what we use to navigate the ship while we're underway As you can see in here in the pilot house got a great view looking out the windows We have these these brand new consoles right here and part of the shipyard period We got upgrades something called the integrated bridge navigation system and part of that system is these consoles where we can display a Lot of information and as we have the chart display We've got the the rudder and the propulsion control and so all this information really helps the situation awareness for the bridge watch standards Additionally, we have an embedded training system So we have these two large screen displays Up here right now and we're getting ready to do a training scenario for one of our junior officers So this is very similar to what we do in the simulator's chore now. We can do it on our ship As we move around I want to show you the helm console now while we're underway We'll have a sailor the helmsman here driving the ship So this is the helm controls the rudder and then we also have the propulsion control Controlling our speed and this is a touchscreen Throttle control right here. Lastly. I want to show you these plaques We have 17 of these plaques Posted throughout the ship each commemorating each one of the 17 sailors who lost their lives 20 years ago and these plaques and these sailors served inspiration to us today's terminal warriors It was their heroic efforts that motivate us every single day inspire us towards elite performance Well, that concludes our tour. You'll join me. We'll head down to the fantail. It's humbling and knowing that we're walking in the footsteps of Sailors who served on board here, and she was actually attacked I have a lot more respect for everything that happened. I have a better understanding now from the middle school time frame when this actually took place and Just honoring all 17 It just changes your mood knowing that you're here to do a job and make sure everybody goes home safe Well, that concludes our tour for today. We hope you enjoyed it. We'll always member six seven and we hope you do too