Health specialists advocate moderate-depth exercise on most days of the week. The only break came within the second week of November, when she served as an alternate restoration ship during the Apollo four unmanned capsule flight test. Carpenter performed a number of major training exercises that spring, together with ASW exercises with guided missile destroyer Cochrane and submarines Bonefish and Sailfish in January, Apollo recovery ship training in February, and exercise torpedo firings at Aspro on 31 March and Plunger on 30 April. On 4 April, Carpenter's radar tracked the Apollo 6 capsule as it passed practically overhead on a trajectory to a safe splashdown close to Bennington. Other workouts over the next a number of months included digital countermeasures, gunnery, sonar, and radar calibration checks, as well as follow ASW torpedo pictures. This evolution examined the destroyer's sonar tracking skills and ASW rocket weapons system. The routine was broken only by occasional airplane-guard operations with Hancock, an evaluation of her SQS-32 sonar capabilities in opposition to the nuclear-powered submarine Seadragon, and on 20 February, service as contingency restoration ship throughout John Glenn's Mercury Friendship 7 orbital flight. With yard work complete by 12 January 1967, the destroyer resumed a quick-paced coaching regimen - including gunnery qualifications, antiaircraft drills, fight air patrol control, AN/SQS-26 sonar evaluation, and Dash operations - in preparation for her next deployment.
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