USS Midway (CV-41) 1987-88 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Midway (CV-41) 1987-88 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Midway (CV 41) served as the U. S. Navy's forward deployed carrier homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. The 1987 88 cruise coincided with Operation Earnest Will, the Navy's escort of Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf during the Iran Iraq War. Midway and Carrier Air Wing 5 operated in the Western Pacific while the Navy was heavily engaged in tanker escort operations in the Gulf. This sweatshirt commemorates that deployment.

Through the siege of Khe Sanh

and the seizure of American hostages in Tehran all unfolded as carrier forces surged to the region

The 2000 deployment placed USS Cape St

Thirty-six years in

With Operation Desert Fox launched against Iraq in December and NATO forces watching Kosovo slide toward open conflict

USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) deployed in 1969-1970 to Yankee Station

the mission was clear

Three decades of service — from Vietnam patrols to Desert Storm combat to Adriatic peacekeeping — and now

This sweatshirt commemorates her 2000 cruise

the Navy's transformation was undeniable — bigger

the 6th Fleet shifted from routine operations to wartime readiness as the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban in Afghanistan

She served as the Navy's forward-deployed carrier homeported in Yokosuka

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