USS America (CV-66) 1990-91 Cruise Shirt (Ver 1)

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USS America (CV-66) 1990-91 Cruise Shirt (Ver 1)Operation Desert Shield, August 1990. USS America answered the call before the ink was dry on the United Nations resolutions, heading to the Red Sea as the world's largest military coalition assembled. When Desert Storm began on January 17, 1991, CV 66's air wing struck with precision and force 42 days of combat operations that ended with Kuwait liberated and Saddam Hussein's army broken. This cruise shirt marks one of the proudest chapters in the

USS America and her crew were exactly where the nation needed them

The Soviet Navy was watching

USS Antietam (CG-54) held the line in the Western Pacific

the malaise

protect American interests in a Mediterranean that had rarely felt more dangerous

delivering Operation El Dorado Canyon's precision strikes against Libya in response to Gaddafi's terrorism

backed by the forward presence of ships like CV-66

Your deployment was defined by real danger and genuine sacrifice — not just presence

CV-66 was in position when Desert Storm lit up the skies on January 17

From late 1982 through 1983

USS America found a new kind of mission

Commissioned just months before on January 23