On 6 April 1954, LST-1164 departed the amphibious base for a brief stop at the United States Naval Reserve training center at Jacksonville, Florida.

They were located on both of United States's coasts, at the naval amphibious bases, NAB Little Creek and NAB Coronado.

They manned an amphibious base which included a hospital built in Hakin and a docks complex at Newton Noyes.

In 1959 she shifted her home port to the amphibious base at Little Creek, Virginia, and continued to perform minesweeping duties during the periodic practice assaults on the Atlantic coast.

She sailed from Norfolk on 12 February 1954 to conduct a tour of inspection of amphibious bases in the Caribbean area.

The roadway continues east as Midway Road onto the amphibious base.

After the successful completion of the world's toughest course, he was selected for basic underwater demolition course at amphibious base, Coronado, CA.

Routine operations out of the amphibious base at Little Creek occupied her time through the summer of 1954 and into the fall.

Little Creek, the amphibious base in the Norfolk, Virginia, naval complex, was her home port for similar operations until 12 February 1959, when she sailed for Rodman, Canal Zone.

In the year 1941, the United States Government began building Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, the largest amphibious base in the country.