 The squadron's fourth and fifth deployments in 1967 and 1968–1969 saw them return to the Gulf of Tonkin for combat operations.After their fifth deployment, the USS "Hornet" was decommissioned and VS-35 was reassigned as part of CVSG-53 and in May 1970 deployed in the Atlantic on the .On 17 May 1972, VS-35 deployed with CVSG-53 on board the to the Pacific and participated in the Operation Pocket Money, the mining of Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam.