USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1991-92 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1991-92 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) deployed during the period that encompassed Operation Desert Storm the air campaign that began in January 1991 and drove Iraq's forces out of Kuwait in 100 hours of ground combat. Ike and her air wing operated in the Red Sea as part of the multi carrier force that flew thousands of sorties over Iraq and Kuwait. The 1991 deployment was the payoff of a decade of military rebuilding, and the American carrier fleet

Named for the Allied assault that cracked the Italian front in 1944

This was the farewell cruise of a legend

With the Cold War over and the Gulf War won

Her 1962 deployment brought her into Caribbean waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the closest the world came to nuclear war

maintained their training

For the sailors of USS America

and unmistakably American

USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) deployed into a Western Pacific charged with rising tension

they made the mission possible

USS George Washington (CVN-73) deployed to the Western Pacific

The men of the 1967 cruise flew into that fire and did not flinch

For the crew who served aboard the lead ship of the Navy's most capable destroyer class