USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Millennium Cruise Hoodie

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USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Millennium Cruise HoodieUSS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) Millennium Cruise, 19992000. Kennedy was at sea when the world counted down to the year 2000. Deployed to the Mediterranean and Adriatic, her air wing flew combat missions during Operation Allied Force NATO's campaign to halt the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. For the crew of this storied carrier, the millennium didn't arrive with fireworks on a city street. It arrived at sea, on watch, in the unbroken tradition of sailors who

Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 transformed the cruise into something more consequential than routine forward presence — American forces began massing in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia

the Philippine Sea

USS America (CV-66) deployed in 1982

USS George Washington (CVN-73) deployed in 2002

Operating in the theater that was central to Cold War competition between the superpowers

USS America (CV-66) deployed in 1989

and Ticonderoga-class cruisers played a central role in that campaign

and provisions to combatants operating far from port

during which the carrier and her battle group were placed on high alert as superpower tensions reached a dangerous peak

Kitty Hawk's aircraft flew hundreds of combat sorties against targets in North and South Vietnam

Her air wing flew over the scarred landscape of the former Yugoslavia as the region took its first tentative steps away from ethnic war

The crew of this cruise upheld the Navy's forward-presence mission with the skill and professionalism that had defined "Connie" for more than three decades

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