William C. McCool - Tributes

Tributes

• Asteroid 51829 Williemccool was posthumously named for McCool.
• McCool Hill in the Columbia Hills on Mars was posthumously named for McCool.
• McCool Hall, in the Columbia Village apartments at the Florida Institute of Technology, is named after him.
• Guam South Elementary/Middle School, a DoDEA school in Santa Rita, Guam, was renamed CDR William C. McCool Elementary/Middle School on August 29, 2003.
• Willie McCool Track and Field at Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas, was posthumously named for McCool.
• Willie McCool Bronze Sculpture placed in the library at Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas.
• Willie McCool Memorial was dedicated on Saturday, May 7, 2005, at Huneke Park at 82nd and Quaker Avenue in Lubbock, Texas.
• The William McCool Science Center, located on the campus of the Frank Lamping Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada, is a facility where elementary students throughout the Clark County School District have an opportunity to learn about space and other fields of science.
• A Gawad Kalinga village in Moncada, Tarlac, Philippines, will be named "USN Commander Willie McCool GK Village".
• In the Star Trek book Mirror Universe – Glass Empires, the shuttlecraft of the U.S.S. Defiant in the short story "Age of the Empress" is named the McCool.
• McCool Field at Officer Training Command-Newport, Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island is named after him.
• The Willie McCool Monument was dedicated on December 2, 2007, at the U.S. Naval Academy Golf Course. The monument stands where Willie would have been 16 minutes from the finish line during his fastest race on Navy's home course.
• The Willie McCool Memorial Model Air Field park located in North Las Vegas, Nevada was posthumously named for McCool on October 23, 2004.
• McCool Hall, located on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma is a Navy Bachelors Enlisted Quarters named after McCool.
• Camp McCool, located in Bagram Airfield, is the home of rotating EA-6B Prowler Squadrons currently supporting ISAF in Afghanistan.