USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) 2002-03 Cruise Shirt

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USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) 2002-03 Cruise ShirtJanuary 2002. USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) clears Puget Sound and heads west into one of the most historic deployments in carrier aviation history. Over the next sixteen months, Lincoln's crew flies combat missions over Afghanistan, executes precision strikes in Iraq, and becomes witness to history when the Commander in Chief makes a tailhook arrested landing on their flight deck. Over 16,500 combat sorties. Two wars. One crew. This shirt marks that

the Navy's escort of Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War

USS Seattle (AOE-3) deployed in 1987-88

conducting flight operations and maintaining a continuous American naval presence in the region during a period of heightened Cold War tensions

Her 1962 deployment brought her into Caribbean waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the closest the world came to nuclear war

projecting American power and reassuring NATO allies across the region

This shirt commemorates the 1967 cruise — the deployment on which the catastrophic fire occurred on July 29th off Yankee Station — a day that changed the Navy forever

When USS Antietam (CG-54) deployed in 1990

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

USS Gravely (DDG-107) deployed in 2015-2016

USS Cape St

as Forrestal stood watch in the Mediterranean with the steady professionalism that had always defined her

one of history's most audacious nuclear circumnavigations

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