USS Chicago (CG-11) 1976 WESTPAC Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Chicago (CG-11) 1976 WESTPAC Cruise SweatshirtUSS Chicago (CG 11) carried a proud name first borne by a World War II heavy cruiser and into the guided missile age. Originally commissioned in 1945 as CA 136 and converted to Albany class guided missile cruiser CG 11 in 1964, Chicago was a frontline combatant through the height of the Cold War. Her 1976 Western Pacific cruise came in America's Bicentennial year in the shadow of the fall of Saigon, as the U. S. Navy reestablished its forward presence

Commissioned on Independence Day 1991 and named for the Navy's most celebrated destroyer commander

Roosevelt provided multi-mission capability across air defense

Hornet continued serving America's naval interests through the Cold War era

she was back in the Western Pacific — the same waters she had patrolled through a decade of war

USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) and her Carrier Air Wing flew day and night alongside B-52 Stratofortresses

This embroidered apron brings the ship's proud legacy into your home

USS Hawes (FFG-53) — a guided-missile frigate whose service spanned the Cold War

George's crew answered every requirement with the professionalism that defines the surface Navy

and NATO preparing for possible intervention

USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) conducted a Western Pacific deployment during a year the world watched ISIL seize territory across Iraq and Syria

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) deployed in 1998-1999 to the Persian Gulf

The 2013 cruise marked one of Nimitz's last OEF deployments before the drawdown of combat operations in Afghanistan