 In March 1996, CVW-5 and VFA-195 deployed to calm tensions in the Taiwan Strait over Taiwan's first direct presidential elections.Between 1991 and 1998 VA-195 made ten deployments aboard "Independence" to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.From 1998 to 2008 VFA-195 was assigned with "CVW-5" to USS "Kitty Hawk".