After returning to service in late 1912, "Montana" made another trip to the eastern Mediterranean, departing in December. "Montana" again joined "Tennessee" for the patrol, which was ordered in response to the Balkan Wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan League, which again threatened American interests in the region. The ships operated under the command of Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight. During the trip, which lasted until June 1913, she made stops in Beirut, İskenderun, and Mersin. After returning to the United States, the ship resumed her peacetime routine of training cruises off the American east coast, as well as cruises to Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti, over the following year. During this period, on 23 January 1914, "Montana" was in Haiti when Michel Oreste abdicated from the presidency. "Montana" and the German protected cruiser landed marines in Port-au-Prince to prevent rioting in the capital. Later that year, for a few days between 28 April and early May, "Montana" took part in the United States occupation of Veracruz, where the ship's commander, Louis McCoy Nulton, led a landing party in the city during the occupation. "Montana" also carried the remains on the seventeen sailors and marines who had been killed in the fighting back to New York City, arriving on 10 May. There, the Navy held a ceremony attended by President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.