 Her actions not only included support to the Vietnam War shore operations in the Western Pacific but she did so at her primary duty station off the coast of North Vietnam as the northern search and rescue ship controlling aircraft carrier-launched combat aircraft at PIRAZ.On a normal day, "Fox" monitored the activity of 200 Navy and Air Force missions.In particular, on 23 October 1967, a "Fox" air controller directed two F-4 fighters from the carrier to intercept the subsequent kill of a North Vietnamese MIG-21 aircraft over Hanoi.