[Willie Green]

ping to a Navy vet.

Use as an artificial reef seems an honorable fate for some ships.
Can't turn 'em all into floating museums.
And I sure wouldn't want to see 'em cut up and melted
in Indonesia to be reimported from China as a Huffy bicycle.
I suppose Naval target practice is another practical use.
But as necessary as that may be, it always
left me with an uneasy feeling as being not quite right.

Here's to all who served aboard the Spiegel Grove during her many years of service!

[dwilli]

I was trying to catch up with my landing group and was choppered to the USS Spielel Grove TAD in the early seventies. I remainded on board until we joined up with USS Nashville, on which my home squadron was embarked. I served on probably 10 - 12 different amphibs during my service. Never did I experience the pure filth on another vessel found on the Spiegel Grove. The mess decks seemed clean but the rest of the ship was plain old nasty.

[Poohbah]

She also starred in David Poyer's novel, The Med, which is a very good read. Poyer's novels about the Navy are required reading for midshipman at Annapolis.