My dad was stateside the entire war. First he was on a sub chaser doing convoy escort out of GA and FL. They'd escort a fleet of cargo ships half way across the Atlantic, meet up with a convoy coming this way, and escort them back to FL.
Later he trained for flying blimps, also doing coast patrol, watching for u-boats. He trained in NJ then was sent to GA. Later he was transferred to Tillamook, OR. There's now a naval air museum in the 1 remaining blimp hangar in Tillamook.
Here he is manning a radio on a blimp. He was a chief at this time.
I don't know where this was taken but it's one he was on.