Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ọ natara Fleet Air Wing Atlantic Chief of Naval Operations Safety Award maka 1972. N'ihi mgbalị nke ndị agha ahụ na 1973 na 1974, VP-26 natara Captain Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy maka ịdị mma na agha agha. N'afọ 1975, ndị otu ụgbọelu ahụ sonyere na emume ncheta afọ 200 nke United States. Na mgbakwunye na-efe efe a 13-kpakpando ọdụ okpu na ha ugbo elu, ihe karịrị 100 ndị ikom na ndị inyom si VP-26 undertook na mpụga mmezigharị nke Pejepscot Museum na Brunswick, Maine, ịkpata squadron a Navy Bicentennial Command designation. Dị ka ndị agha ụgbọ mmiri nke naanị ọrụ abụọ na-arụ ọrụ, na 1976 nkewa nkewa na NS Rota na Lajes Field nyere VP-26 ohere iji gosipụta agba abụọ ya na Mediterranean, Europe na North Atlantic. Ndị otu ahụ natara Golden Wrench Award maka mmezu dị elu na mmezi ụgbọ elu na ịdị njikere na Captain Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy maka 1976. N'ọnwa Septemba afọ 1977, e zigara VP-26 n'ọtụtụ ebe na North Atlantic. N'ịbụ nke dabeere na NAS Bermuda na Lajes Field, ndị agha ahụ nwere ndị agha na
Panama Canal Zone, RAF Ascension Island, NAS Guantanamo Bay, NAS Keflavik na NS San Juan. Ọrụ ndị a haziri ahazi gosipụtara ntinye a, dịka ndị ọrụ ụgbọelu na-esonye n'ọtụtụ ASW na NATO na Allied Naval Forces. N'ịlaghachi na NAS Brunswick na mbido 1978, VP-26 natara Ngọzi Unit Meritorious, Silver na Golden Anchor Awards maka njigide mma, na CNO Aviation Safety Award maka arụmọrụ na 1976 na 1977. Na Machị 1979 VP-26 bidoro ntụgharị site na P-3B na P-3C Mmelite II, nke jikọtara ihe kachasị ọhụrụ na avionics na usoro ngwa agha (gụnyere ngwaọrụ nchọpụta infrared nke arụnyere na turret nke na-agbadata site na imi iji chọpụta ihe mgbaru ọsọ ehihie ma ọ bụ abalị, na AGM-84A Harpoon missile ike).