| Add a VP-45 Shellback Initiation | Add a VP-45 Deployment - Major Event |
| Month |
Year |
to |
Month |
Year |
Deployment / Event |
| OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Guantanamo Bay |
| JUL | 1965 | - | JAN | 1966 | Alaska |
| JUL | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Argentia NF split Bermuda |
| JUL | 1967 | - | JAN | 1968 | Bermuda/Argentia Split |
| DEC | 1968 | - | JUN | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
| JUN | 1973 | - | NOV | 1973 | Mediterranean |
| JUN | 1974 | - | DEC | 1974 | North Atlantic |
| JAN | 1981 | - | JAN | 1986 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
| NOV | 1994 | - | MAY | 1995 | Caribbean |
| AUG | 1997 | - | FEB | 1998 | Mediterranean |
| FEB | 1999 | - | AUG | 1999 | Caribbean |
| FEB | 2002 | - | AUG | 2002 | Caribbean |
| DEC | 2003 | - | AUG | 2004 | Mediterranean |
| MAY | 2005 | - | DEC | 2005 | West Pac |
| JUN | 2007 | - | DEC | 2007 | NAS SIGONELLA, CATANIA SICILY COMALAPA INT AP EL SALVADOR. |
| JUL | 2010 | - | | | Shellback Initiation - 6 JUL 2010 - Pacific Ocean |