USS Benfold (DDG-65) 1997-98 MAIDEN DEPLOYMENT Short-Sleeve Unisex T-Shirt

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USS Benfold (DDG-65) 1997-98 MAIDEN DEPLOYMENT Short-Sleeve Unisex T-ShirtHospital Corpsman Third Class Edward C. Benfold gave his life on September 5, 1952, near Han'gye, Korea, throwing himself on two enemy grenades to save the Marines he served alongside a selfless act of heroism that earned him the Medal of Honor posthumously. The ship that bears his name, USS Benfold (DDG 65), honored that sacrifice from her very first deployment in 199798, cutting through the Western Pacific as a newly commissioned Arleigh Burke class

And through it all

USS Midway (CVA-41) deployed in 1963-1964

2001 — just weeks after the nation answered the call following the September 11 attacks

strike missions

Eisenhower (CVN-69) returned to the Persian Gulf in continued support of Operation Enduring Freedom

USS Cowpens (CG-63) returned to the Western Pacific in 1994

General Vandegrift was awarded the Medal of Honor

A Leahy-class guided missile cruiser with more than twenty years of fleet service

USS Barney (DDG-6) deployed in 1987–88 into a Mediterranean where tensions were anything but routine

This mug is for the sailors who were there — and the families who are proud of them

During this period of Cold War tension

Hancock represented American resolve and readiness in the years leading up to the Vietnam conflict