26 February. Returning to Subic Bay briefly at the end of the month, Alamo then headed for Okinawa on 2 March. At Okinawa, she embarked troops for a major bilateral amphibious exercise conducted on the South Korean coast. Alamo returned to Okinawa on 1 April but stayed only until 4 April when she got underway for Japan. Following a nine-day call at Sasebo, the dock landing ship returned to Subic Bay on 20 April. From there, she voyaged to Singapore by way of the Indonesian island of Bali. Back in the Philippines by mid-May, Alamo carried out exercises there for the remainder of the month. On 10 June, she headed back to Okinawa. Alamo arrived at her destination on 13 June and spent the next 10 days conducting amphibious exercises at Okinawa. On 23 June, the dock landing ship put to sea for the passage home. After brief pauses at Iwo Jima and Pearl Harbor, the amphibious warship dropped anchor at Del Mar, California, on 15 July. She moved to San Diego on 16 July and commenced postdeployment standdown. The leave and upkeep period ended during the second week in August, and Alamo started another schedule of amphibious warfare training in waters along the west coast. Those evolutions lasted until 14 October at which time she began a restricted availability at pierside in San Diego. She remained there through the end of 1986. Rio de Janeiro (G-31) Alamo was decommissioned 2 November 1990 and loaned the same day to the Brazilian Navy as Rio de Janeiro (G31), being commissioned by the 21st of November. During her tenure with the Brazilian Navy, Rio de Janeiro acted in support of MINUSTAH, transporting Brazilian Army and Marine Corps materiel and personnel between Rio de Janeiro and Port-au-Prince, as well as in several naval exercises. In 2006, she acted as the flagship to Rear Admiral (Contra-Almirante) Francisco Antônio de Magalhães Laranjeira, commanding officer assigned to the task force responsible for the operation Haiti III leaving Fortaleza towards Haiti. In this maiden voyage to Port-au-Prince, she transported no MINUSTAH materiel, acting solely as a command and control vessel and carrying satellite communications equipment, a group of officers that would be deployed to MINUSTAH, Marine Corps policemen and a detachment of GRUMEC operators responsible for protection of the ships during their stay in port. The task force also involved the landing ship Mattoso Maia, the frigates