page_title: USS Carpenter (DD-825)
section_title: 1976–1980
hierarchical_section_title: USS Carpenter (DD-825) / Service history / 1976–1980
caption_attribution_description: The Turkish destroyer TCG Anıttepe (D-347) underway in the Mediterranean Sea, in 1988. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is visible in the background.
context_page_description: USS Carpenter was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Donald M. Carpenter.
context_section_description: This pattern of operations continued until 27 September 1976, when the destroyer began an overhaul at Bethlehem Steel shipyard in San Francisco. Completed on 26 August 1977, the aging destroyer had received major repairs to her main propulsion plant and combat-system upgrades. Returning to reserve operations, Carpenter spent the next three years conducting local operations interspersed with longer training cruises. The latter included trips to Ensenada, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska.
  Carpenter's last underway period took place in May and June 1980, during which she provided plane-guard services for Ranger and conducted an ASW exercise with McKean and Bonefish. Upon her return, the crew began preparations to turn over the ship to the Republic of Turkey as part of the Security Assistance Program.
caption: Anıttepe underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 1988
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