U.S.S. Gridley DLG/CG-21

Leahy Class Silhouette from the CG period

USS Gridley DLG/CG 21

USS Gridley DDG 101 at 30 Knots on Sea Trials in August 2006

The Spirit Continues

To the tune of the "White Hat March", we are off on the revision of this web site. I will try to incorporate many of the pictures that I have received over the years and have some ideas like a section for "sea stories". I need some volunteers, particularly from the 1980's on. If you have any ideas for particular section, please let me know. pwcarter@ix.netcom.com

A couple of years ago I went to the Naval Historical Center in DC and scanned all of the Command Histories on file there. Some years were missing but we captured a lot of them. If you have ever wondered where you were on such and such a date. Here it is.

You need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view these. It can be downloaded free from here. It works equally well in Opera, IE 7 and Firefox browsers.

Go to Command Histories

Reunion Plans

Tentative plans are to have another reunion in 2009

Boulder Station in Las Vegas. The proposed dates are 4/28-5//1/2009

Let us know if you have any problems with either the date or the location.

Another important addition is the photo of GRIDLEY being broken up in Texas. See it here!

See if this matches your recollection of shipboard life!
Great pictures of GRIDLEY underway, with sound effects! Click here!
A little Naval Lore from Jim Hampton
Some Engineering pictures from Robert Linley MM1
More Engineer pictures from Robert Miller BT2
See the wardroom gang circa 1968
Kevin Reilly's pictures from the early 80's
Brent Curtis sends us an incredible tale of GRIDLEY during the 69-71 period.
John Sporleder's, and others, recollections of the suicide on GRIDLEY's first cruise

See our salute to Petty Officer William J. Duggan, to our knowledge, GRIDLEY's only combat casualty. Click here.

Some great anecdotes from Dave Brioch from GRIDLEY's first cruise. Some of the other plank owners might want to make some comments. (Last item on the page)

In 1967 GRIDLEY made a stop in Wellington, New Zealand. Now, 34 years later, a lovely young woman and her daughter are looking for their father and grandfather. Don't get nervous, thanks to their GRIDLEY uncles, he knows who he is. Get the story here!

Subic Bay means different things to GRIDLEY sailors from different era's. I (Phil Carter) have been back to the Philippines many times since getting out of the Navy but never back to Olongapo. David Springer sent me a slide show which I have put out on the Yahoo message board in the files section http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ussgridley/files/ .

You can download it and run it on your computer. It is a self-executing file so you don't need any special software. I read recently that what was a booming economy has fallen on hard times but I am sure we all wish them well. The file is 1.5 meg so those of you without broadband should be prepared. It is worth it though!

Stop the press! Check out http://www.subicbaypi.com/ . The "girls of Olongapo" section brings back a few memories. Some guys did not throw out all their pictures!

Read how GRIDLEY missed the Bi-centennial on July 4, 1976

Photo by Ray Haas, MissleEx 1976

We have set up an e-mail group where members can post messages that go to everyone in the group. Here is how it works - you go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ussgridley and click on the link to subscribe. Fill out all of the required information and follow the instructions. One of the moderators will approve your membership and then you will get confirmation of that. We are doing this to keep the list closed to those who were truly crew members.

Once you are a member of the list, you can send a message to ussgridley@yahoogroups.com and it will go out to all of the other members. Please note that you must subscribe, we are not people automatically. After you are enrolled, you can change your profile so that you receive each message, periodic summaries or only read your messages when you go online.

There is a polling function on the site that has some questions about a possible reunion. Anyone with suggested questions for the group can send them to me.

Financial supporters of the GRIDLEY site

Too many to list now!

Technical Support - This web site is done in Microsoft Front Page and looks best in Internet Explorer 6.0. However, it also looks good in the AOL browser and Opera .

Any graphic on the site can be copied and saved by right clicking on the graphic and saving the file. That way, if we change some pictures, you will have a permanent file of pictures that have been posted.

By nature, a site like this is highly graphical. If any of you are using really slow modem speeds it may be painful to wait for the page to load. let me know if it gets too bad and I will endeavor to put less pictures on each page.