Although fears of Soviet intervention in Korea had diminished, ASW exercises remained important to the units operating off Korea. "Bataan" conducted two such operations, one between 23 and 29 November 1952 and another between 17 and 23 December. The first operation included an "opposed" sortie against and , "hunter-killer" submarine searches, and general ASW patrols. She also practiced jet aircraft tracking with North American F-86 Sabre fighters operating out of Kadena airfield in Japan. The second exercise included electronic counter-measure (ECM) intercept exercises against and long-range ASW training with Lockheed P2V Neptunes.