 In early 1963 she conducted oceanographic survey operations in mid-Pacific.In March 1964 "Outagamie County" transported troops between Oahu and training areas on Hawaii itself.During a four-month tour to Adak, Alaska, in mid 1965, the ship aided a large freighter, Liberian ship "Hadjitsakas", which had run aground on a small island in the Aleutians.