USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 1988 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 1988 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) patrolled some of the world's most volatile waters during the 1988 cruise. Operation Earnest Will was in full swing as the Navy escorted Kuwaiti tankers through a Persian Gulf under fire from Iranian forces. In July 1988, USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in the fog of naval warfare tension in the Gulf had reached a deadly peak. By August, the Iran Iraq War ground to a ceasefire after nearly a million casualties.

The Big E had kept the Cold War's peace for decades

This long sleeve cruise shirt marks a deployment that proved sea power is just as vital in peacetime as it is in war

The Mediterranean had been tense all year — the Line of Death

with Carrier Air Wing Five flying missions across the Western Pacific and providing sustained deterrence from Yokosuka

Kitty Hawk had established herself as a veteran of Cold War carrier operations

Few cruises in modern carrier aviation history carry more significance

Her crew operated at the intersection of diplomacy and deterrence — making sure every nation watching the region understood what was possible when the world's most capable carrier was on station

maintaining a continuous carrier presence in the Gulf of Tonkin during a period when the Nixon administration was pursuing Vietnamization while still conducting significant air operations

When al-Qaeda struck the United States on that Tuesday morning in September

Eisenhower (CVN-69) deployed during the period that encompassed Operation Desert Storm — the air campaign that began in January 1991 and drove Iraq's forces out of Kuwait in 100 hours of ground combat

Operating initially in the Mediterranean Sea

USS Ranger (CVA-61) deployed to the Western Pacific in 1972-73

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