Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Rogers was converted to a picket ship at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia.

After further training in the Atlantic and Caribbean, Rogers transited the Panama Canal and touched at San Diego before reaching Pearl Harbor on 4 August 1945.

On 1 September she stood out of Tokyo Bay to join a fast carrier task group and commence her routine duties as a member of the 7th Fleet.

During 1951 and 1952, Rogers served as a unit of Task Forces 77, 95, and 96 and participated in shore bombardment, blockading, and patrol missions in Korean waters.

In June 1963, after 18 years in the Pacific, Rogers departed San Diego for the east coast and FRAM I modernization at Charleston, South Carolina.

During the summer of 1965, Rogers visited San Francisco, Puget Sound, and Hawaii as part of the Pacific Midshipman Training Squadron.

At the completion of another spring of west coast operations, Rogers headed back to WestPac, departing from San Diego on 29 June 1972.

She returned to San Diego on 22 December and spent the next year on the Pacific coast of the United States engaged initially in normal operations.

The destroyer is now a museum ship at Dangjin Marine Tourism Organization (Sapgyo Hamsang Park) in the city of Dangjin-Gun, Chung Nam Province.