USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) 1993 Unisex Sweatshirt

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USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) 1993 Unisex SweatshirtUSS Lake Champlain (CG 57) is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser commissioned on August 12, 1988, and homeported at San Diego, California. The 1993 deployment sent the ship to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean during a period of continued U. S. naval engagement in the region. Equipped with the Aegis Combat System, Lake Champlain served as the primary air defense asset for her carrier battle group, providing around the clock threat

and the families who held down the home front were every bit as essential as those standing watch at sea

Navy's first generation of large amphibs designed to combine the helicopter-carrier role of the LPH with the landing-ship and cargo-ship roles of the LSD and LKA in a single hull

Boise — named for Idaho's capital city — joined the proud lineage of American attack submarines trained to hunt

Men who wore this cruise jacket carried history on their backs long before the rest of the world caught up

Saratoga and her air wing maintained operational readiness throughout a demanding and strategically significant cruise

When she was decommissioned in 2005

and finally Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003

This shirt commemorates the 1979–80 cruise

and deployed through the long campaigns of the Global War on Terror

dodging Iraqi SAMs and AAA with the skill and confidence of aviators who had mastered the threat

came in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks

Gettysburg's crew stood watch over vital sea lanes and conducted operations that highlighted the enduring importance of American naval power in European waters

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