 The Liddle crew worked with civilian contractors to modernize the Reid, on 18 March 1967 she was recommissioned at the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Norfolk, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Aloysius G. Hennessey, Jr., and manned by the crew of "Liddle", which decommissioned that day.Assigned to Amphibious Squadron 8, "Beverly W. Reid" was home-ported at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to which she shifted on 19 April 1967.After fitting out and local operations, "Beverly W. Reid" departed for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 5 May 1967.