USS Recruit (TDE-1, later TFFG-1) was a landlocked "dummy" training ship of the United States Navy, located at the Naval Training Center in the Point Loma area of San Diego.
She was built to scale, two-thirds the size of a Dealey-class destroyer escort, and was commissioned on July 27, 1949.
Recruit was commissioned for 18 years, for much of that period the only landlocked ship to hold that status in the U.S. Navy.
She still sails on a sea of concrete in a shopping center in Point Loma.
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