USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 1978 Cruise Shirt

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USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 1978 Cruise ShirtBy 1978, USS Enterprise had already served through fifteen years of Cold War tension, one of history's most audacious nuclear circumnavigations, and a decade of combat in Southeast Asia. The 1978 Western Pacific cruise found her still leading the line nuclear powered, combat proven, and ready. Soviet forces continued to probe American resolve from Murmansk to Vladivostok. Enterprise answered with flight operations and forward presence, the same answer

The late 1990s brought rising regional ambitions and renewed friction in multiple theaters

America was back in the business of projecting power

George's crew rose to every challenge

demonstrating that American sea power doesn't take holidays between conflicts

Deployed to the Western Pacific with Carrier Task Force 77 in the Gulf of Tonkin

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Rolling Thunder

and USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) was in the middle of it

she stood watch over Europe as the world held its breath

USS Constellation (CVA-64) had outlasted the Vietnam War and remained one of the Navy's most capable carriers — a ship seasoned by more than a decade of demanding deployments

warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz while Iranian forces laid mines and attacked neutral shipping

and submarines working in concert to ensure American dominance in the Pacific

Coral Sea and her crew kept flying through it all

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