After an availability that extended to 4 July, she spent the next three days screening as the escort carrier conducted carrier qualifications in the Hawaiian operating area. On 9 July, "Burden R. Hastings" and four other destroyer escorts left Pearl Harbor to escort a large convoy of troopships to Eniwetok. Reaching that atoll on 17 July, she cleared the Marshalls the same day, on her way back to Hawaii in company with , , , and . The formation arrived at Pearl Harbor on 23 July. The next day, "Burden R. Hastings" commenced a tour of duty under Commander, Submarine Training, Pacific (ComSubTrainPac). On 23 August, "Burden R. Hastings" sailed for San Francisco, escorting SS "Philippa". Arriving on the last day of August, the destroyer escort unloaded ammunition and moored at the Hunters Point Naval Drydocks for a yard overhaul.