 During each, she conducted training operations with other units of the 7th Fleet and made goodwill and liberty port calls throughout the Far East.Early in 1964, she began preparations for her sixth cruise to the western Pacific and, following exercises off the west coast and in the Hawaiian Islands, the carrier cleared Pearl Harbor on 4 May for what began as another peaceful tour of duty in the Far East.The first three months of that deployment brought normal operations—training and port calls.