Patrol Squadron 4 (VP-4) Operation MARTILLO 2016

Established as Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR (VB-144) on 1 July 1943. Redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR (VPB-144) on 1 October 1944. Redesignated Patrol Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR (VP-144) on 15 May 1946. Redesignated Medium Patrol Squadron (Landplane) ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR (VP-ML-4) on 15 November 1946. Redesignated Patrol Squadron FOUR (VP-4) on 1 September 1948, the second squadron to be assigned the VP-4 designation.

Lockheed P-3C UIIIR Orion, 1992-2016.

NOTE: Patrol Squadron (VP) 4 conducted 2016 deployments visiting Sigonella, Sicily and Djibouti, Africa, and to Comalapa, El Salvador to conduct maritime interdiction operations (MIO) in support of Operation Martillo stationed at Cooperative Security Location (CSL) Comalapa as a piece of a larger operation led by Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South to detect and deter drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific and Western Caribbean.