While en route back from Subic Bay to Yankee Station, the ship received the nod for another mercy mission. On 3 December, "Wrangell" reversed course on orders from Commander, Naval Forces, Philippines, and rendezvoused with the freighter SS "American Pilot", sending over a corpsman in the ship's motor whaleboat to assist a sailor who had suffered an arm wound that was bleeding profusely. After her corpsman had stanched the bleeding and given sufficient help to enable the man to be safely transferred to a shore facility for further treatment, "Wrangell" continued on for Yankee Station. She subsequently spent Christmas in Hong Kong and later returned to the waters off the coast of Vietnam. There, she engaged in nearly continuous rearmings of a host of ships, including the attack carriers, "Ranger", "Constellation", and the veteran , with Task Force 77. These operations were part of the ship's regular routine that alternated load-in operations at Subic Bay with replenishment work during line deployments in the South China Sea and Tonkin Gulf.