 After a voyage to North Africa and western Europe in August and September, "Aldebaran" settled into a routine of operations along the east coast punctuated by voyages to the West Indies to provide logistics support to bases and ships in that region and to participate in exercises.Such pursuits occupied her time for almost 19 months, until the beginning of June 1948.On the 4th, she stood out of Chesapeake Bay to embark upon the first of many missions to the Mediterranean Sea.