 After stops at Tsingtao and at Yokosuka for temporary repairs, she headed back to the west coast on 14 January 1949.The destroyer reached Long Beach on 5 February and, after completing a five-month repair period, resumed operations along the Pacific coast which, save for a run to Pearl Harbor in the fall of 1949, occupied her until events in Korea summoned her back to the Orient.When the North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950, "Theodore E. Chandler" was operating out of San Diego.