I am a "plank owner" member of the commissioning crew for the Gompers with Capt. Risch. I served on her from July 1967 until the spring of 1970, when I was transferred to USS Southerland DD-743, the first ship into Tokyo Bay after the Japanese surrender at the end of WW2. I was in the Interior Communications shop, R-3 Division as a gyrocompass technician. My brother enlisted the year after me and also became an IC fireman and served with me on the Gompers for three years and one WESPAC tour. I have cruise books for the first two WESPAC tours of duty when we had on-sea contact with the USS Pueblo to hi-line one of their crew with a neck injury to our medical center. We were told that he fell down a ladder but found out later that they were having a grab-ass at-sea swim when one of their other crew members jumped off of the ship on to his head. We were later moved to Sasebo after that ship was captured by North Korea. I spent a lot of time on Grande Island in Subic Bay when it still had a golf course. I still have the aluminum security notice plaque from the ship's quarterdeck as a souvenir "plank".