 After leave and upkeep, the warship conducted refresher training and local operations through the summer and fall.The destroyer finally departed California for a Far East cruise on 28 December, Arriving at "Yankee Station" via Japan and the Philippines on 14 March 1968.The warship conducted shore bombardment missions off II and III Corps areas of responsibility in April and May as part of the Vietnamese counter-offensive after Tet, targeting enemy concentrations ashore.