USS Antietam (CG-54) 1996-97 Deployment Sweatshirt

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USS Antietam (CG-54) 1996-97 Deployment SweatshirtUSS Antietam (CG 54)'s 1996 97 deployment put her crew at the center of the most consequential Pacific standoff since the Cold War. The Taiwan Strait Crisis sparked when China launched missiles near Taiwan during its landmark presidential election required an immediate and overwhelming American naval response. Two carrier battle groups sailed, Aegis cruisers like Antietam held the line, and the message was received. That deployment stands as a

when Forrestal's presence in the Mediterranean kept the watch that mattered

When USS America was in the Mediterranean in 1977-78

The 2004-05 Western Pacific cruise added another chapter to USS Abraham Lincoln's long record of service — and added more months to the tally of time apart for Lincoln's families

and widely deployed

This sweatshirt commemorates the ship's 2014 cruise

This Ship's Crest sweatshirt honors their dedication

the brilliant World War II naval aviator who developed the "Thach Weave" fighter tactic that helped defeat the Japanese Zero

USMC — a Marine officer who survived years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam

For more than two decades she served as the flagship of amphibious ready groups in the Pacific Fleet

intelligence

answering a familiar call

Commissioned in 1947 as one of America's new Midway-class carriers

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