USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1998 Cruise Shirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1998 Cruise ShirtIn 1998, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) deployed to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf as the United States confronted Saddam Hussein's defiance of UN weapons inspectors. When diplomatic pressure collapsed, Ike's embarked air wing stood ready, and in December 1998 coalition forces launched Operation Desert Fox a concentrated air campaign against Iraqi military and weapons infrastructure. Eisenhower's sailors and aviators upheld the tradition of

Forrestal kept her watch with the same steady professionalism that had defined her for three decades

As Operation Desert Shield hardened into Desert Storm

Designated as an attack carrier

and naval forces remained essential to sustaining operations across the theater

USS Antietam (CG-54) sailed her 1992 deployment in the wake of two historic events — the end of the Cold War and the triumph of Operation Desert Storm

As the Soviet empire began its slow collapse

the Aegis cruiser deployed into waters far from Baghdad — but the strategy she supported reached all the way to Anbar Province

Those who served this deployment did so with courage and professionalism under sustained combat conditions

The 1989 cruise was USS Coral Sea's (CV-43) final deployment — the last chapter of a 42-year career that began in 1947 and touched every major chapter of postwar American naval history

The 1984–85 cruise of USS Dwight D

USS Anzio (CG-68) deployed in 2011

Coral Sea and her crew kept flying through it all

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