Originally ordered as PCE-905, the lead ship of the of patrol craft, the ship was laid down at the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle. She was reclassified as an and assigned the hull code of AM-232 by the time of her June 22, 1944, launch by sponsor Mrs. R. J. Huff. By the time of her November 15, 1944, commissioning, she had been assigned the name Execute.
Following shakedown cruise she departed for Pearl Harbor whence she escorted a convoy to Leyte via Eniwetok, Ulithi and Kossol Roads during February 1945. On March 26, as part of the preliminary assault force for the invasion of the Ryukyus, she screened landing craft against countless air attacks
Early in April she served with the Sweep Unit in clearing the bays of Nakagusuku and Chimu and defended vessels against kamikaze attack. She participated in the Battle of Okinawa. During this battle she picked up 70 survivors of the after it had been hit by a Japanese plane. She remained on sweeping duty, participating in a feint landing on 20 April to draw attention from a large-scale advance on Naha. From June through September 10 she swept in the Yellow Sea and in Japanese coastal waters.
In March 1946, Execute transited the Panama Canal and on August 6, 1946, was placed out of commission in reserve at Orange, Texas. While she remained in reserve, Execute was reclassified (MSF-232) on February 7, 1955. She was stricken from the Navy List on May 1, 1962, and sold to Mexico later in the year.
The former Execute was acquired by the Mexican Navy in 1962 and renamed ARM DM-03. In 1994, she was renamed ARM General Juan N. Méndez (C51) after Juan N. Méndez. She was stricken on July 16, 2001, but her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources.