Returning to the United States on 11 August, "Goff" engaged in battle problems and tactical exercises off the East Coast and then on 3 January 1924 joined the Scouting Fleet for winter battle practice with the combined fleets in the Caribbean, "Goff" returned to Norfolk, Virginia for further exercises and on 5 January 1925 sailed for Pearl Harbor, arriving 24 April for fleet battle exercises. She returned to New York 17 July. This established pattern of coastwise exercises and fleet maneuvers was broken in the fall of 1926, as "Goff" and engaged in rescue work on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, which had been devastated by the hurricane of 19–20 October. Flying in stores via "Milwaukee's" planes and sending their own doctors and medical supplies ashore, the two American ships gave aid to the stricken island and its predominantly American population.