Since World War II ended some eight months before her completion, the "Albert J. Myer" was delivered to the Maritime Commission on 17 May 1946 and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, Virginia. The ship was again taken in by the US Army on 7 February 1952. The ship was reactivated at Baltimore, Maryland with a crew recruited from Seattle, Washington where the ship would be based and put into service as USACS "Albert J. Myer" operated by the U.S. Army Transportation Corps for the U.S. Army Signal Corps.