From China, she returned to Hawaiian and west coast operations.

The airline's east coast operations ended on January 7, 2008.

She resumed west coast operations for about two months.

Soley resumed her routine east coast operations which she continued until May 1952.

She resumed west coast operations almost immediately with type training and a weapons inspection.

Returning to her base on 4 October, she resumed east coast operations.

After a period of normal east coast operations, the destroyer once again headed toward the "middle sea" in February 1958.

Five months of normal west coast operations followed.

From this point she commenced a lengthy career of east coast towing operations.

They were a smoking gun, one that was almost certainly pointing at the Clan's east coast operations.