In August 1978 she embarked units of 2d Bn, 2d Mar, 2d MarDiv (Rein) at Moorehead City, N.C. and sailed the North Atlantic to Europe. Her first stop was the Shetland Islands for ops with the British Army then to Coenhagan Denmark where 2/2/2 disembarked for travel to then-West Germany by land to exercise with the Bundeswehr. After the conclusion of that exercise, she embarked the Marines at Bremerhaven and sailed for ports of call at Copenhagen and Edinburgh, Bergen Norway, Goteborg Sweden. The Raleigh returned to Moorehead City in early October 1978 where the Marines were disembarked for return to Camp Lejeune. In early 1979 Raleigh steamed to Maryland shipbuilding & drydock in Baltimore Maryland for another yard period.