USS Woodcock (AM-14) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

During that time, Woodcock spent 54 days in the minefields and 28 in port for needed upkeep and voyage repairs occasioned by the heavy weather often encountered by the ships of the detachment.

Outside yearly return voyages to a navy yard in the United States such as that of Charleston, South Carolina, for repairs and alterations, Woodcock remained in Haitian waters, based on Port-au-Prince, through the spring of 1934.

That summer, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to pull the U.S. Marine Corps occupation force – a veritable fixture in Haitian history since August 1916 – out of Haiti, Woodcock took part in that important troop lift.

On 15 August 1934, amidst impressive shoreside ceremonies and "most friendly feelings displayed by the populace," Woodcock — in company with Bridge (AF-1), Argonne (AS-10), and U.S. Army transport Chateau Thierry — embarked 79 officers and 747 enlisted men of the 1st Marine Brigade, the last of the occupation troops, and took them back to the United States.