 Departing Long Beach 2 September , New Jersey touched at Pearl Harbor and Subic Bay before sailing 25 September for her first tour on the gun line along the Vietnamese coast . Near the 17th parallel on 30 September , the battleship fired her first shots in battle in over sixteen years , expending a total of 29 sixteen inch rounds against People 's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) targets in and near the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) at the 17th parallel . 
