 Completing Refresher Training and Naval Gunfire Support Qualifications, "James E. Kyes" was ready for its 1971 deployment.In 1971, "James E. Kyes" after several important exercises between Long Beach and Pearl Harbor, got under way for the Western Pacific on 19 March.Arriving in the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnamese waters on 3 April, "James E. Kyes" plane guarded for the and steamed with the .