 Records do tell that she joined the destroyer east of Okinawa during the fall of 1966 to patrol the secondary recovery zone for the Gemini 11 space project.When the capsule splashed down successfully in the primary zone located in the Atlantic Ocean, the two destroyers resumed their normal duties.In mid-October, while en route back to the combat zone, she received orders to join the aircraft carrier and screen that carrier during operations in the Gulf of Tonkin.