| Add a VS-28 Shellback Initiation | Add a VS-28 Deployment - Major Event |
| Month |
Year |
to |
Month |
Year |
Deployment / Event |
| JUN | 1941 | - | NOV | 1941 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
| OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
| JUL | 1963 | - | | | Shellback Initiation - 11 JUL 1963 - Atlantic Ocean |
| SEP | 1964 | - | NOV | 1964 | Mediterranean |
| JUN | 1968 | - | NOV | 1968 | Mediterranean |
| MAY | 1970 | - | SEP | 1970 | North Atlantic |
| JUN | 1971 | - | OCT | 1971 | Evaluate CV Concept |
| JUN | 1973 | - | JAN | 1974 | 1973 Yom Kippur War |
| JUN | 1973 | - | JAN | 1974 | Second evaluation of the CV Concept |
| JAN | 1974 | - | JAN | 1974 | Departs NAS Quonset Point for its new base NAS Cecil Field |
| APR | 1976 | - | NOV | 1976 | Initial Deployment of an AIRLANT S-3A Squadron |
| JUN | 1977 | - | | | Shellback Initiation - 19 JUN 1977 - Atlantic Ocean |
| JUN | 1977 | - | SEP | 1977 | Mediterranean |
| JUL | 1977 | - | JAN | 1979 | Mediterranean |
| SEP | 1977 | - | APR | 1978 | Mediterranean |
| JUN | 1979 | - | DEC | 1979 | Mediterranean |
| NOV | 1980 | - | JUN | 1981 | West Pac-Indian Ocean |
| APR | 1981 | - | | | Shellback Initiation - 19 APR 1981 - Indian Ocean |
| JUN | 1982 | - | DEC | 1982 | Mediterranean |
| JUN | 1982 | - | DEC | 1982 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
| OCT | 1983 | - | NOV | 1983 | Grenada |
| NOV | 1983 | - | APR | 1984 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
| MAR | 1984 | - | MAR | 1984 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
| OCT | 1984 | - | FEB | 1985 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
| JUN | 1986 | - | DEC | 1986 | Mediterranean |
| MAR | 1988 | - | AUG | 1988 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
| OCT | 1989 | - | APR | 1990 | Mediterranean |
| MAY | 1991 | - | DEC | 1991 | Mediterranean |
