sentences:  Returning to Long Beach on 19 July, she spent the next three months preparing for her next Far Eastern cruise.After leaving Long Beach on 4 November, "Benner" participated in a joint American and Canadian ASW operation in Hawaiian waters where she was awarded the "Golden Plunger Award" for "sinking" during the exercise.Continuing on to Yokosuka late that month, the destroyer proceeded to the Gulf of Tonkin and, on 24 December, joined "Operation Sea Dragon", a logistics interdiction effort in the coastal waters of North Vietnam.