 In this, like the other operations staged from the Marshalls, the ship sailed easterly by day and westerly by night to a distance some east of Eniwetok.Her patrolling of this stretch of the Pacific between the Hawaiian Islands and the Marshalls continued for 10 days before "Tills" returned to Pearl Harbor for availability alongside tender .The ship conducted post-availability exercises off Oahu before screening for in late February, while the escort carrier's planes carried out night flight training operations.