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While operating off [[Vietnam]] on 20 April 1967, an explosion in a gun mount injured six sailors.<ref>[http://www.navysite.de/dd/dd942.htm Navysite.de - Bigelow].</ref>
''Bigelow'' served as a test platform for [[Phalanx CIWS]] in 1977. The mount was installed just aft of the aft radar gun director.<ref>Navweaps.com [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Phalanx.htm 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)].</ref><ref>[http://www.mediacen.navy.mil/pubs/allhands/jan01/weapons.htm All Hands Magazine January 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920100418/http://www.mediacen.navy.mil/pubs/allhands/jan01/weapons.htm |date=20 September 2008 }}.</ref><ref>[http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/942.htm NavSource.org contains an image of the CIWS mount.]</ref>
[[Glenn R. Brindel]], [[commanding officer]] of {{USS|Stark|FFG-31|6}} during the 1986 missile attack, was [[executive officer]] of ''Bigelow'' from 1978 to 1980.<ref>''Skipper is veteran of Vietnam;'' The Patriot - News. Harrisburg, Pa.: 19 May 1987. pg. A.2</ref>
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