 In a February detachment to NAS Fallon, VFA-204 expended a record 302 tons of ordnance, smashing the squadron's old record of 128 tons delivered at Fallon in 1993.During the summer of 1996, the squadron embarked in then what was the Navy's newest carrier, .This detachment included the first ever night cyclic operations for the River Rattlers and another live fire missile exercise in the Virginia operations area.