VP - 94 The VP - 94 " Crawfishers " was a U . S . Navy Reserve P - 2 Neptune and P - 3 Orion antisubmarine warfare and maritime patrol squadron based at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans , Louisiana . VP - 94 was initially established in 1970 as part of a Navy initiative for the majority of combat aviation units in the then - Naval Reserve ( now Navy Reserve ) to be organized as front line commissioned units with their own aircraft and support equipment . VP - 94 was one of 13 Reserve patrol squadrons assigned to Reserve Patrol Wing Atlantic ( RESPATWINGLANT ) and Reserve Patrol Wing Pacific / Patrol Wing FOUR ( RESPATWINGPAC / PatWing 4 ) under the operational control of Naval Air Reserve Force ( NAVAIRESFOR ) , later redesignated as Naval Air Force Reserve ( NAVAIRES ) . All Naval Reserve Force Squadrons , patrol , fighter , fighter / attack , etc . , are / were colloquially referred to as Reserve Force Squadrons , or RESFORONS , manned by a combination of full - time active duty Training and Administration of the Reserve / Full Time Support ( TAR / FTS ) and traditional part - time Selected Reserve ( SELRES ) personnel . TAR / FTS personnel nominally comprised approximately 33 % of these squadrons ' manning and SELRES approximately 67 % . The squadron ' s part - time personnel , especially the aircrews , were required and funded to perform far more than the typical one weekend a month and two weeks a year of duty , with many averaging 120 or more man - days of military duty annually . Throughout the Cold War , VP - 94 initially operated the SP - 2H Neptune transitioning to the P - 3A Orion in April , 1978 , then the P - 3B and finally the P - 3C , routinely deploying world - wide , primarily tracking Soviet submarines and surface vessels . The squadron played a role in Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean drug interdiction operations with the U . S . Coast Guard . The squadron was awarded the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Citation with Operational Device and the Coast Guard Special Operations Ribbon for these operations . Following the demise of the Soviet Union , and the reduction in Russian naval activity , and the perceived " Peace Dividend " of the mid - 1990s , much of the US Navy ' s P - 3 patrol aircraft fleet was subjected to budgetary reductions . In the case of the active duty P - 3 fleet , the entire patrol aviation ( VP ) community was reduced by 50 % , going from 24 deployable P - 3C fleet squadrons and two fleet replacement squadrons , to 12 deployable P - 3C fleet squadrons and one single - site fleet replacement squadron . The Reserve VP community of 13 P - 3B and P - 3C squadrons was subjected to more drastic reductions . VP - 94 was one of 11 Reserve VP squadrons disestablished to cut costs . Eliminated were all squadrons operating P - 3B aircraft , which were retired to AMARC , and eliminating all but two Reserve P - 3C squadrons , transferring the bulk of the Reserve P - 3C aircraft to the Regular Navy at the principal active duty CONUS and Hawaii P - 3 bases . VP - 94 was disestablished in September 2006 . The remaining Reserve P - 3C squadrons are VP - 62 ( the " Broadarrows " ) at NAS Jacksonville , Florida and VP - 69 ( the " Totems " ) at NAS Whidbey Island , Washington .