"Carpenter" conducted several major training exercises that spring, including ASW exercises with guided missile destroyer and submarines and in January, Apollo recovery ship training in February, and exercise torpedo firings at on 31 March and on 30 April. This training regimen ended on 4 June, when the destroyer sailed to Oregon for the Portland Rose Festival. Returning to Pearl Harbor on 20 June, "Carpenter" resumed underway training in preparation for her next deployment. That commenced on 9 September, when the destroyer got underway for the Far East.