USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1981 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1981 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Forrestal (CV 59) was the first purpose built supercarrier of the postwar era, commissioned in 1955 and named for James V. Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. She set the template for every fleet carrier that followed the angled deck, the size, the capability and deployed to the Mediterranean and Atlantic through the Cold War decades as a symbol of American sea power. In July 1967, a catastrophic fire on her flight deck off Vietnam cost the

George's sailors answered the call with the resolve and readiness the Navy required

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

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her crew entered the 5th Fleet's demanding area of responsibility: the Persian Gulf

When the Tet Offensive erupted on January 31

striking targets in Afghanistan in the opening days of the war

her air wing proved the ship and the men who flew from her decks—demonstrating that America's newest attack carrier was more than ready for the challenge

and now Iraqi Freedom

and provisions to combatants operating far from port

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