"Of all the tools the Navy will employ to control the seas in any future war, the most useful of the small types of combatant ships, the destroyer, will be sure to be there. Its appearance may be altered and it may even be called by another name, but no type - not even the carrier or the submarine - has such an assured place in future navies."  Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

. . . to BT3 Todd D. Rainer , #1 Fireroom 1987-1989, for his account of the 1987 Operation Nimble Archer.

. . . to Len Gordon (DDG-17 swab) for the fore and aft photos of the completed HOEL power barge.

. . . to STG1 John Daly for helping to fill in the previously empty 1982-1984 time frame.

. . . to Allie and Dorothy Carter for the William Rion Hoel and Waynesville, Ohio, history details.

. . . to Don Smith for his ASROC details, 1967 WESTPAC details, and Captain's Gig info.

. . . to Ralph Vierregger for the Captain's Gig location info.

. . . to FTG2 Warren Ellis for the 1968 WESTPAC cruise details.

. . . to OS3 David Sargent for his 1975-1979 WESTPAC cruise recollections.

. . . to Matt Tranquilli for the 1987 Operation Nimble Archer details.

. . . to  FC2 Jerry Bitner for his additions to the 1987 Operation Nimble Archer account.

. . . to the Webmaster at RDAscam.com for his 1998 HOEL history data.

. . . to FTM2 William P. Scott for his accounts of the 1970, 1972, and 1974 WESTPAC cruises.

. . . to Earl Faubion for his movie of Hoel underway in Vietnam waters in early 1970 .

. . . to STG1 (SW) James Krentz (1987-1988) for his Operation Nimble Archer newspaper clippings.

. . . to Donald McIntyre (1961-63) for his Bay City Times (MI) newspaper clippings.

. . . to Stan Schrock for three poems created by the ship's yeoman.

. . . to Glenn Ross for his recollections of 1973-1975.

. . . to John E. Olsen for his Project SHAD (test Autumn Gold) 1963 details.

. . . to Nestor A. Arguilla for his 1982-1983 cruise history.

. . . to James Parker for his 1967-1968 history details.