USS Midway (CV-41) 1979-80 Cruise Sweatshirt with Persian Gulf Yacht Club

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USS Midway (CV-41) 1979-80 Cruise Sweatshirt with Persian Gulf Yacht ClubUSS Midway (CV 41) served as the Navy's forward deployed carrier homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. The 1979 80 cruise extended operations into the Persian Gulf region amid the Iranian hostage crisis, earning her crew membership in the legendary "Persian Gulf Yacht Club" the unofficial distinction awarded to ships operating in those contested waters during a period of heightened tension. This sweatshirt commemorates that deployment with the classic

Her final Mediterranean deployment closed out thirty-one years of service with the same professionalism that had defined CV-66 from the day she was commissioned

Rolling Thunder

recommissioned in 1982 under the Reagan administration's 600-ship Navy buildup

Kennedy (CV-67) operating as part of Task Force 24

and homeported in Groton

Commissioned on November 14

USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716) — a fast-attack submarine whose service has earned a permanent place in U

in the Solomon Islands

Ranger conducted extensive Western Pacific deployments throughout the Cold War

where her 16-inch guns proved devastating against shore fortifications and troop concentrations

With American forces still engaged in escorting tankers through the Persian Gulf and tensions with Iran running high

This shirt honors the families of the 1983 cruise who carried the weight of separation with strength and love

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