USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1988 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1988 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtUSS 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

but the crew of CVA-66 proved that American airpower was still the decisive factor

USS Bataan (LHD-5) deployed to the Mediterranean with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

When the Dayton Accords were signed that November

the Cole attack in October 2000 drove those concerns into tragedy

Serving aboard the Ageless Warrior meant being part of a tradition stretching back to the carrier battles of the late 1940s

and more forward-leaning than it had been in years

Navy escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through waters where the Iran-Iraq Tanker War had made the sea lanes a hazard

And crews like yours were going to make it real

Forrestal served for decades more after that tragedy

her air wing flying interdiction missions and providing close air support as the strategic picture shifted

until Saddam Hussein's forces were routed and Kuwait was free

when the vulnerability of American warships in foreign ports became tragically clear