 Retaining her Army name, the transport was not re-commissioned, but instead was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service and manned by a civil service crew.USNS "General Hugh J. Gaffey" (T-AP-121) spent almost two decades carrying men and material to American installations throughout the Far East and the Pacific Ocean.Transported troops and accompanying families to and from overseas assignments in Guam, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Okinawa.