USS Intrepid (CVS-11) 1972-73 Cruise Shirt

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USS Intrepid (CVS-11) 1972-73 Cruise ShirtIn 1972 73, USS Intrepid (CVS 11) deployed in one of her final operational cruises before decommissioning in 1974. The "Fighting I" continued her antisubmarine warfare mission in Atlantic waters, representing the end of an era a carrier that had served her country through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Every member of her final crews shared in a piece of the most storied career in carrier aviation history.

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

and the professionalism of carrier sailors in this period helped bring the Cold War to a peaceful end

Vietnamization was reshaping the war

With ethnic cleansing scarring the Balkans and the world watching

They helped make it possible

The 1989 cruise was USS Coral Sea's (CV-43) final deployment — the last chapter of a 42-year career that began in 1947 and touched every major chapter of postwar American naval history

ready-to-engage legacy of the admiral for whom she was named

and prepared to act

and provisions to combatants operating far from port

George (CG-71) was on deployment — and every sailor aboard understood that their mission had just transformed

maintaining the naval presence that kept an unstable world from getting worse

The Ageless Warrior came home one final time before being decommissioned in 1990

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