 "Eversole" emerged from the shipyard in February 1963 to be homeported at the Long Beach Naval Station in Long Beach, California.During her periods of training and preparation for deployment on the west coast, "Eversole" often visited ports of the Pacific Northwest, and on occasion voyaged to the Hawaiian Islands.On 8 October 1969 "Eversole" deployed from Long Beach Naval Station, California, to the western Pacific stopping in Oahu, Hawaii, and Midway Island in transit to Yokosuka, Japan before frequent deployments to the Tonkin Gulf for plane guard assignments with the carrier forces of the 7th fleet and naval gunfire support duties for ground troops.