USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 2010 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 2010 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtIn 2010, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) returned to the Persian Gulf in continued support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Nine years into the Global War on Terror, American sailors and aviators had become battle hardened veterans of sustained combat operations. Ike's air wing flew missions over Afghanistan while the strike group maintained a watchful presence across the region honoring the ship's namesake, the Supreme Allied Commander who knew that

she provided the carrier battle group with indispensable air and missile defense capability

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon

The crew of CVA-66 was there from the darkest days of the Easter Offensive to the moment peace was finally within reach

While the world unraveled

When the Tet Offensive erupted on January 31

The ship named America

Her 2006 cruise carried the bold Halsey name into the Western Pacific

the Ticonderoga-class Aegis guided missile cruiser stood as the fleet's most advanced air defense platform

USS Enterprise deployed into the volatile Middle East theater with her battle group

USS America (CV-66) deployed in 1977-1978

barely two years after commissioning — putting the second Nimitz-class nuclear carrier to sea in earnest for the first time

In early 1971