USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1971 Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1971 Cruise ShirtUSS Forrestal (CVA 59) was the first purpose built supercarrier of the postwar era, commissioned in 1955 and named for James V. Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. Designated as an attack carrier, she set the template for every fleet carrier that followed the angled deck, the size, the capability and deployed repeatedly to the Mediterranean as one of the most powerful warships in the world. In July 1967, a catastrophic fire on her flight deck

In the mission logs of Operation Iraqi Freedom

where NATO forces remained committed to stabilizing a post-war Bosnia and deterring further conflict in the Balkans

carrying the name of the nation they protected

The 2000 cruise came during one of the most sobering periods in recent Navy history — the era of the USS Cole bombing

The hostages were free

yet the world remained far from quiet

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) deployed in 1986

USS Antietam (CG-54) kept the watch in 2007

This shirt commemorates the 1982 cruise — a deployment during the Reagan-era military buildup

and forward-deployed forces like Antietam were proving every day that American naval power remained the world's most stabilizing force

and the ship that made it all possible

the destroyer commander who never lost a ship in 22 engagements across the Solomon Islands campaign in World War II