Ports visited:
Pearl Harbor
Yokosuka, Japan
Sasebo, Japan
Hong Kong
Subic Bay, Philippines
Guam

Patrol Areas:
Sea of Japan (SOJ)
Northwest Pacific (NW PAC)

Returned to San Diego November 1973
Drum's first WESTPAC deployment was the longest, 8 months. Deployment extended due to the heightened international tensions caused by the Arab-Israel Yom Kippur War in October 1973. Drum crewmen returned home to find gas lines and rationing.