USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 1986-87 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 1986-87 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) deployed on the 1986 87 cruise into a world of sharply rising tensions. America struck Libya in April 1986 in response to state sponsored terrorism. The Iran Contra affair rocked Washington. In May 1987, an Iraqi Exocet missile struck the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 Americans. Carl Vinson's crew maintained their combat readiness and professional bearing through a period that tested the entire naval service. This

saving the ship

with Carrier Air Wing Eleven executing sustained flight operations across the Pacific

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) deployed in 2009-2010

The cruise continued Normandy's long record of sustained forward presence in the world's most strategically vital waters

Truman (CVN-75) and honors the crew who served

George (CG-71) was in the middle of it

an accidental rocket ignition on the flight deck triggered a catastrophic chain of explosions and fires

Between Vietnam combat tours

It was a cruise that proved what Lincoln and her crew could do — forward deployed

The 1967 cruise placed USS Constellation (CVA-64) at the heart of the air war over Vietnam

heavier cotton

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) deployed to the Western Pacific