Assigned To The West Coast
She completed fitting out at Tacoma on 17 September and got underway for her home port, San Diego, California. She arrived there on the 22d and began shakedown training along the California coast
Shakedown and operational tests lasted until 18 January 1967 at which time she entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for post-shakedown availability. Those repairs continued until 14 March at which time she returned to San Diego. She remained in port there for two weeks. On 28 March, she departed San Diego en route to the western Pacific. On 1 April, the gunboat was redesignated PG-84. After stops at Pearl Harbor and Guam and a return visit to the latter island necessitated by a breakdown in her main propulsion plant, Asheville finally arrived at Camranh Bay in South Vietnam on 7 May.
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