 Six days later she shifted to Sasebo, her permanent base of operations.A unit of Mine Squadron 3, "Phoebe" spent the next eight years in a rigorous schedule of minehunting and warfare tactics with the US 7th Fleet.Much of her time was taken for maneuvers with minesweeping units of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, the Chinese Nationalist Navy, the Republic of Korea Navy, and the Republic of the Philippines Navy.