on 17 July. She returned to sea with the task group on the 22nd bound for home. After the customary port of call at Oahu, where Bagley picked up family members of the crew, for the "Tiger Cruise" portion of the deployment, back to home port, the warship reentered San Diego on 11 August. Bagley earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon and the Navy Expeditionary Medal for its outstanding service during operations while on deployment, as well as another Sea Service Ribbon. Bagley returned from its extended deployment, having conducted operations in three of the U.S. Navy's four active fleets, and began an extended post-deployment standdown period soon after! In fact, the left port only briefly on four occasions in October; the rest of the year she spent in San Diego. Another series of four brief underway periods in January 1987 punctuated a month otherwise spent largely in upkeep. In February, she traveled to Concord where she unloaded ammunition before beginning a restricted availability at San Diego on the 16th. The repair period lasted until early summer and included a seven-week drydocking in that occupied most of April and all of May. Late in June 1987, Bagley resumed normal operations out of San Diego; and, except for operations in the Bering Sea that took up most of November, she remained active in the immediate vicinity of San Diego for the rest of the year. As 1987 waned and 1988 began, however, Bagley anticipated imminent departure for overseas duty. She stood out of San Diego on 4 January 1988 in company once more with the Enterprise task group. The warships made an unusual nonstop, but leisurely, Pacific crossing during which they carried out a five-day readiness exercise in the Hawaiian operating area. The frigate and her colleagues reached Subic Bay in the Philippines on 1 February and remained in that port until the 6th. On that day she and the other warships in the group got underway for a tour of duty in the Arabian Sea, returning once more to a region of chronic political convulsions spawned by a decade of Iranian provocations. En route to the Arabian Sea, Bagley participated in a series of exercises with units of the Indonesian Navy. She and her units reached their destination at mid-month and relieved the Midway task group as contingency force on station. For about two months, Bagley patrolled the waters of