USS Constellation (CV-64) 1999 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Constellation (CV-64) 1999 Cruise SweatshirtFollowing Operation Desert Fox in December 1998 four nights of punishing strikes against Iraq's weapons programs USS Constellation (CV 64) deployed into a region still on edge. The 1999 WESTPAC cruise put "Connie" in the heart of ongoing deterrence operations, her air wing patrolling the Arabian Gulf skies and her crew keeping a 38 year old warship at peak combat readiness. As the world held its breath heading into the new millennium, Constellation's

and the coalition faced its gravest test since the invasion

USS Anzio (CG-68) deployed in support of this effort — her Aegis Combat System providing the integrated air defense architecture that made strike operations possible in one of the world's most contested threat environments

aircraft from America's flight deck flew close air support

CVA-66 was among the first carriers surged into the Gulf of Tonkin in response

USS Anzio (CG-68) was already in the fight

USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) remained forward deployed to the Western Pacific

USS Constellation (CV-64) deployed in 2001

On April 15

a watch bill

When tensions flared in the Taiwan Strait in early 1995

USS America's 1990-91 deployment took her crew from a peacetime Navy to the front lines of Operation Desert Storm

There is something deeply fitting about the ship named America being underway during America's Bicentennial

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