Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya karbi kyautar Tsaro na Tsaro na Tsaro na Tsaron Tsaro na Fleet Air Wing Atlantic don 1972. A sakamakon kokarin da rundunar ta yi a shekarar 1973 da 1974, VP-26 ta karbi Kyaftin Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy don kwarewa a yakin basasa. A shekara ta 1975, rundunar ta shiga cikin bikin Amurka Bicentennial. Baya ga tashi da tauraron tauraro 13 a kan jirgin su, sama da maza da mata 100 daga VP-26 sun yi aikin gyaran waje na Gidan Tarihi na Pejepscot a Brunswick, Maine, wanda ya sa rundunar ta sami mukamin Kwamandan Sojojin Ruwa na Bicentennial. A matsayin rundunar sojan ruwa ta karni na biyu da ke aiki, rarrabawar 1976 zuwa NS Rota da Lajes Field ya ba VP-26 damar nuna launukansa na bicentennial a duk fadin Bahar Rum, Turai da Arewacin Atlantic. Squadron ya sami lambar yabo ta Golden Wrench Award don babban nasarar da aka samu a cikin kula da jirgin sama da kuma shirye-shiryen jirgin sama da kuma Kyaftin Arnold Jay Isbell Trophy na 1976. A watan Satumbar 1977, an tura VP-26 zuwa wurare da dama a Arewacin Atlantic. Da farko an kafa shi ne a NAS Bermuda da Lajes Field, rundunar ta kasance a cikin yankin Canal na Panama
, RAF Ascension Island, NAS Guantanamo Bay, NAS Keflavik da kuma NS San Juan. Ayyukan da aka tsara sun nuna wannan turawa, yayin da ma'aikatan jirgin sama suka halarci darussan ASW da yawa tare da NATO da Sojojin Sojan Ruwa. Komawa zuwa NAS Brunswick a farkon shekarar 1978, VP-26 ya sami lambar yabo ta Meritorious Unit, da lambar yabo ta Azurfa da Zinare don kyautatawa, da kuma lambar yabo ta Tsaro ta Tsaro ta Tsaro ta Tsaro don ayyukan 1976 da 1977. A watan Maris na 1979 VP-26 ya fara sauyawa daga P-3B zuwa P-3C Sabuntawa na II, wanda ya haɗa da na'urorin zamani da na'urorin makamai (ciki har da na'urar gano infrared da aka saka a kan turret wanda ya sauko daga hanci don gano manufa rana ko dare, da kuma AGM-84A Harpoon missile capability).