USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) 1971-72 Cruise Shirt

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USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) 1971-72 Cruise ShirtBy 1971, America was drawing down its presence in Vietnam, but the work of protecting South Vietnamese forces continued. USS Enterprise (CVAN 65) deployed to the Western Pacific as part of Task Force 77, flying missions in support of South Vietnamese ground forces under President Nixon's Vietnamization policy. The 1971 72 cruise saw Enterprise threading the narrow space between military mission and political reality doing the job with skill and

Carrier Air Wing One flew thousands of sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan

her crew kept the ship ready

CVA-66 surged into the Gulf of Tonkin and flew relentlessly through Operation Linebacker — the most intensive air campaign of the war — helping blunt the invasion and turn the tide

She simultaneously supported ongoing combat operations in Afghanistan — a testament to the range and endurance of carrier-based air power

carrying out the mission that fast combat support ships were built for: keeping the fleet armed and ready in a combat theater

This long sleeve cruise shirt honors those who stood watch in one of the most dangerous peacetime deployments in Navy history

the crown jewel of the nuclear carrier force

flew close air support

USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) deployed in 1964-1965

MiG fighters

The Bicentennial

she brought two decades of fleet experience to a deployment that kept the watch in waters the United States has always considered vital

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