After an ASW exercise with south of Manila Bay, "Carpenter" arrived at Subic Bay on 24 September to have her ECM antenna repaired. Departing four days later, she took up a screen position on "Yankee Station" and provided plane-guard services for until 11 October. While steaming towards Subic Bay that day, the crew discovered several leaks in the ship's hull. Moving immediately into dry dock AFDM-6 at Subic Bay, the rusted plating was repaired by work crews and "Carpenter" returned to "Yankee Station" on 5 November. She then provided plane-guard services to , , and through January 1972. Departing the area on 15 February, the destroyer arrived at Pearl Harbor on 9 March.