'Stethem' also had the opportunity to support the Battle Group as a carrier escort and a plane guard.
Barry returned to Athens for Thanksgiving before resuming further contingency operations, mostly as carrier escort, which lasted until the end of the year.
They are vulnerable to sub and bomber attacks, so are safer with carrier escorts.
By the end of the war, the two had become celebrated within the fleet as excellent carrier escorts.
Those carrier escorts will chew him to pieces.
In March she resumed carrier escort and gunfire support duties off South Vietnam.
The warship remained on station, dividing her time between gunfire support, carrier escort, and Soviet trawler surveillance, until mid-March.
Transports, carriers, and carrier escorts to maintain course.
During this deployment, the vessel acted as a carrier escort and a naval gunfire support ship in Vietnamese waters.
Not every ship will be lucky enough to be protected by a carrier escort.