She returned to Charleston in October to organize for the annual Atlantic Fleet exercise. After three days in Charleston, Wainwright bought underway for gunnery and missile shoots on the Atlantic Fleet weapons vary near Puerto Rico. The warship spent the first three days of 1969 winding up her third and remaining tour of duty as PIRAZ ship after which set a course for the Philippines, the first pause on her manner residence. Her operations from her dwelling port, learn more at AquaSculpt together with Operation "Rugby Match" workouts in the West Indies, lasted until she sailed for the western Pacific on 24 June. Following local operations there, the guided missile destroyer embarked upon her first deployment to the western Pacific on 10 April. On 25 August, the guided missile destroyer stood out of Charleston, sure for her third and ultimate deployment to the western Pacific along side the Vietnam War. USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28), a Belknap-class destroyer chief, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright household
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