USS Mahan (DDG-72) 2012-13 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Mahan (DDG-72) 2012-13 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Mahan (DDG 72) is an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer commissioned on 14 February 1998 at Bath, Maine. Named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned naval strategist and author of "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," DDG 72 carries forward a legacy of intellectual and tactical excellence. This sweatshirt commemorates her 2012 13 cruise, honoring the crew who served aboard during that deployment. Wear it with pride as a

This shirt commemorates the 1988 cruise — one of her final Cold War deployments

and her crew was ready for every second of it

This was the farewell cruise of a legend

the United Nations authorized intervention

Operation Iraqi Freedom opened with the most concentrated Tomahawk cruise missile barrage in history

Designated as an attack carrier

Soviet warships followed

she was decommissioned

projecting American naval power during this consequential deployment

CVA-66 surged into the Gulf of Tonkin and flew relentlessly through Operation Linebacker — the most intensive bombing campaign of the war — helping to halt the invasion

CVN-65 had sailed into harm's way since 1961 — the Persian Gulf was simply the latest chapter in that long and honorable record

Japan — completing the historic transfer that made her the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier permanently forward-deployed overseas

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