USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) Ship's Crest Sweatshirt

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USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) Ship's Crest SweatshirtUSS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) was commissioned in March 1994 and became one of the Navy's premier forward deployed destroyers, serving with the 7th Fleet out of Yokosuka, Japan. Named for Curtis D. Wilbur Secretary of the Navy under President Coolidge and a former Chief Justice of California she exemplified the Arleigh Burke class: a destroyer built for sustained combat at sea. Her years of forward presence in the Western Pacific represent the kind of

but the mission of keeping the fleet at sea remained constant

From her flight deck in the North Arabian Sea

The Tet Offensive in January upended American assumptions about the war in Vietnam

but USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) remained on station in the Gulf of Tonkin

CVA-66 surged into the Gulf of Tonkin and flew relentlessly through Operation Linebacker — the most intensive air campaign of the war — helping blunt the invasion and turn the tide

This shirt honors that cruise and the Sailors who made it count

thousands of sailors

Carl Vinson's sailors stood their watch through one of the most dangerous periods of the late Cold War

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) clears Puget Sound and heads west into one of the most historic deployments in carrier aviation history

she has been a centerpiece of American naval power in the Western Pacific for decades

CV-66 was in position when Desert Storm lit up the skies on January 17

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