sentences:  After four months of operations and training in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, the minesweeper began an extended cruise that touched many ports in the East Indies, Australia, and the South Pacific Ocean.She returned to Long Beach, California, on 9 October 1956 and prepared to become part of the "mothball" fleet at Astoria, Oregon.On 15 January 1957, "Waxwing" arrived at Astoria and was placed in commission in reserve with inactivation scheduled to be completed by May 1957.