Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I riro i a ia te Fleet Air Wing Atlantic Chief of Naval Operations Safety Award mo te tau 1972. Hei hua o nga mahi rautaki a te kapa i te tau 1973 me te 1974, i whakawhiwhia te VP-26 ki te Kapene Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy mo te pai o te pakanga anti-submarine. I te 1975, i uru te kapa ki te whakanui i te United States Bicentennial. Hei taapiri ki te rere i te kapu hiku 13-whetu i runga i a raatau rererangi, neke atu i te 100 nga tane me nga waahine o te VP-26 i mahi i te whakahoutanga o waho o te Whare Taonga o Pejepscot i Brunswick, Maine, i whakawhiwhia ai te roopu ki te tohu Navy Bicentennial Command. I te mea ko ia anake te ope o te ope o te ope, ko te 1976 i wehewehea te waahi ki NS Rota me Lajes Field i hoatu ki a VP-26 te whai waahi ki te whakaatu i ona tae bicentennial puta noa i te Mediterranean, Europe me te North Atlantic. I whakawhiwhia te kapa ki te Golden Wrench Award mo te whakatutukitanga pai i roto i te tiaki rererangi me te rite me te Kapene Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy mo te 1976. I te marama o Hepetema 1977, i tukuna te VP-26 ki etahi waahi puta noa i te Raki o Atlantic. I te nuinga o te NAS Bermuda me Lajes Field, i noho te kapa i roto i te
Ko te Rohe Canal Panama, RAF Ascension Island, NAS Guantanamo Bay, NAS Keflavik me NS San Juan. Ko nga mahi kua whakaritea i whakaatuhia tenei whakatinanatanga, i te mea i uru nga kaipuke rererangi ki etahi o nga mahi ASW me te NATO me nga Allied Naval Forces. I te hokinga ki NAS Brunswick i te timatanga o te tau 1978, i whakawhiwhia te VP-26 ki te Whakamoemiti Unit Meritorious, te Silver me te Golden Anchor Awards mo te pai o te pupuri, me te CNO Aviation Safety Award mo nga mahi i te 1976 me te 1977. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1979 ka tiimata te VP-26 mai i te P-3B ki te P-3C Whakahoutanga II, i whakauruhia ai nga mea hou o te avionics me nga punaha patu (tae atu ki te taputapu kitenga infrared i whakauruhia ki te turret i heke mai i te ihu ki te tautuhi i nga whaainga i te ao, i te po ranei, me te kaha o te miihini AGM-84A Harpoon).