 On 12 December, she departed Japan bound for Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she joined a convoy heading to Vietnam.She departed Kaohsiung on 16 December and relieved the destroyer in the northern "Sea Dragon" area on 19 December 1967.That duty continued for almost a month until 16 January 1968, when she moved close to the shores of the First and Second Corps Zones of South Vietnam to provide naval gunfire support for the 5th Marines until early February.