USS America (CV-66) 1989 Cruise Sweatshirt - FAMILY

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USS America (CV-66) 1989 Cruise Sweatshirt - FAMILYThe 1989 deployment of USS America was no ordinary Med cruise it was a front row seat to the end of the Cold War. For the families back home, it was months of waiting, watching the news, and carrying the quiet burden of love and distance. The sailors got the cruise shirt; the families earned something just as real. This sweatshirt is for those who served just as surely from the shore. 50% cotton, 50% polyester Pre shrunk fabric Air jet spun yarn for a

During this period Nimitz and her carrier air wing conducted sustained flight operations across thousands of miles of open ocean

and maintained a ready-to-respond posture as the world's flashpoints demanded American attention

and crews like yours were the reason it all meant something — forward-deployed

Named for America's last frontier and built to operate at the very edge of strategic deterrence

While the news cycle churned through crisis after crisis in 2008

Operation Linebacker II followed in December 1972

President Nixon's massive escalation of air strikes against North Vietnam

Every submariner knows the silence of the deep

never losing focus on what the mission meant

USS Missouri (BB-63) was reactivated and recommissioned in May 1986 after a decade-long layup

While diplomacy played out and the nation held its breath

She was part of the Cold War submarine force that ran silent and ran deep — tracking adversary naval movements and projecting American sea power from beneath the surface of the Pacific and beyond

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