 The pre-deployment ORE (Operational Readiness Evaluation) was conducted in the Hawaiian operations area with units of ASWGRU FIVE, including Destroyer Division (DESDIV 252), Carrier Anti-Submarine Group 53 (CVSG 53).Additionally, time was spent in Pearl Harbor preparing for the long at-sea periods ahead.Finally on 5 July, "Larson" got underway for Yokosuka, Japan, arriving there on 14 July 1966.