USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 2000 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 2000 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtIn 2000, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) patrolled the Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf during a period of rising global tensions. American carrier groups continued to enforce the no fly zones over Iraq keeping Saddam Hussein's air force grounded under Operations Northern Watch and Southern Watch while the broader Middle East simmered with instability. When terrorist bombers struck USS Cole (DDG 67) in Aden Harbor that October, the world was reminded

The world was burning in 1979

USS Coral Sea (CV-43) deployed in 1983

USS America's crew celebrated it from the flight deck — at sea

USS George Washington (CVN-73) deployed in 1994

USS Detroit (AOE-4) deployed in 1994-1995

In 2014-15

Constellation was a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier with Vietnam already in her wake and decades of service ahead

The crew of Bunker Hill stood a tense and vital watch

This shirt commemorates the 1975 cruise — one year in a long life of service

No deployment in USS Constellation's history was more consequential than 2001

and hold the line without firing a shot

It was the defining moment of a new era