USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1988 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1988 Cruise SweatshirtThe 1988 deployment of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) came in the closing years of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union was showing signs of transformation but American naval strategy still demanded full forward presence in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. This was also the year of Operation Praying Mantis the largest American naval surface battle since World War II, fought in April 1988 against Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf. Though Ike's cruise

Few deployment years in the 1990s matched the operational tempo of 1998

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August of that year reshaped the strategic landscape overnight

and USS Cape St

Bosnia was rebuilding under NATO's watchful eye

a suicide boat detonated alongside USS Cole in Aden Harbor

never wavering in their commitment to the men on the ground who depended on air support

This sweatshirt commemorates the 2014-15 cruise and honors the crew who served

The ship named America never looked away

and the ship that made it all possible

Coral Sea had outlived virtually every ship commissioned alongside her — and her crew knew it

This shirt commemorates the 1968-69 cruise — in the aftermath of the 1967 fire

When the Arab Spring ignited Libya into civil war