In the next four months "Melvin R. Nawman" steamed first to Korea and then made three escort trips to the China coast as the United States and Nationalist China tried to redistribute their forces to stabilize the postwar Far East. On 22 December, pressed into “Operation Magic Carpet” duty, the destroyer escort pointed its bow toward home. She arrived at San Francisco, California on 15 January 1946 and on 23 April decommissioned at San Diego, California, and joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet.