"Adopt" operated at San Diego as an escort ship through 26 May 1944. That same month, she reported for duty to the Commander, Western Sea Frontier. She left the U.S. West Coast on 6 June 1944 and shaped a course for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, and took part in a 10-day period of antisubmarine warfare exercises in the waters of the Hawaiian Islands under the auspices of Commander, Task Force 1. On 23 June 1944, she departed Hawaii in a convoy bound for the Territory of Alaska.