In August 1921, Holloway was assigned to destroyer duty, briefly commanding the destroyer before serving as executive officer of the destroyer until June 1922, when he was promoted to full lieutenant and assigned as executive officer of the destroyer for two years of sea duty in the Far East with the Asiatic Fleet. Upon his return to the U.S. in July 1924, he served as an instructor at the Naval Academy in the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery from August 1924 to June 1926, under successive superintendents Henry B. Wilson and Louis M. Nulton.
