The worker could exercise the choice, pay the exercise value and can be issued with extraordinary shares in the corporate. On 2 February 1944, she departed Norfolk in company with the destroyer Goldsborough on her option to the British West Indies. 1979 'Truxtun' departed San Diego, a short stop at Seal Beach to unload ammo, then on to Bremerton. She spent the month of November on the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard undergoing repairs to her nuclear energy plant and returned to San Diego on 4 December. Truxtun returned to San Diego on 27 October. The ship departed San Diego on four April and spent the next six months in operations with the seventh Fleet which took her as far west as the Arabian Sea and as far south as Perth, Australia. During the period 6 January to eleven July 1978, Truckee carried out operations within the Caribbean on four separate occasions.

From four to thirteen January 1977, Truxtun made a round-journey voyage to Hong Kong and back. After two weeks of coaching within the Hawaiian Islands, she continued her voyage west on sixteen August