USS Essex (CVS-9) Ship's Crest Sweatshirt

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USS Essex (CVS-9) Ship's Crest SweatshirtFrom her launch at Newport News in 1942 through her final decommissioning in 1969, USS Essex (CV CVS 9) lived a life that encompassed the full arc of American naval power in the twentieth century. She earned 13 battle stars in the Pacific, launching strikes against the Japanese homeland and surviving kamikaze hits off Okinawa. In the Cold War she was reborn as an anti submarine warfare carrier, patrolling the Mediterranean and Atlantic against the

USS Coral Sea (CV-43) deployed in 1983

USS Chafee (DDG-90) — a guided-missile destroyer whose service spanned World War II

This sweatshirt is for the crew who stood their ground in one of the Cold War's most defining naval moments

The Indian Ocean Yacht Club — no dues

striking targets in Afghanistan in the opening days of the war

from the Cold War through Operation Desert Storm and beyond

USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) deployed into a Western Pacific charged with rising tension

and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — meant plenty of card-carrying members

Commissioned in June 1944

honoring the Sailors and aviators who kept the watch during this pivotal era

The Shellback initiation is one of the oldest Navy traditions

Homeported in Norfolk