USS Princeton (CG-59) 2003 WESTPAC Unisex Sweatshirt

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USS Princeton (CG-59) 2003 WESTPAC Unisex SweatshirtUSS Princeton (CG 59) is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser commissioned on February 11, 1989, and homeported in San Diego, California. Named in honor of the 1777 Battle of Princeton, she is a decorated combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm. During the 2003 WESTPAC deployment commemorated by this sweatshirt, Princeton operated in the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, providing Aegis air defense and

Few deployment years in the 1990s matched the operational tempo of 1998

NATO forces were enforcing the arms embargo and no-fly zone over the former Yugoslavia as the Bosnian conflict continued

" and no carrier on the Atlantic Fleet wore that name with more authority

For the sailors who wore this cruise shirt

In 1963-64

GW operated F-14s with Carrier Air Wing SEVEN through her early deployments

With the Iran-Iraq War freshly ended and the Persian Gulf still tense from years of tanker warfare

the families back home kept the watch in their own way — with pride

Her crew carries the ship and the name with the same determination that made Henry Clay one of the most respected figures in American public life

For the families who had spent months watching the news

and the Arabian Sea for over three decades — a moving monument to American sea power

and the men and women of CVN-69 carried it out with the professionalism the ship's namesake would have demanded