USS Makin Island (LHD-8) Ship's Crest Sweatshirt

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USS Makin Island (LHD-8) Ship's Crest SweatshirtUSS Makin Island (LHD 8) is a Wasp class amphibious assault ship commissioned on 24 October 2009 at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Named for the Battle of Makin during World War II, where Marine Raiders struck a Japanese held atoll in August 1942, LHD 8 carries forward a legacy of bold amphibious action. She was the first LHD built with an all electric propulsion system, dramatically improving fuel efficiency. Homeported in San Diego, Makin Island supports

a mission that became one of the most dramatic naval operations of the Cold War era

USS Reuben James (FFG-57) — a guided-missile frigate whose service has earned a place in U

Kidd served in operations including the Persian Gulf and was decommissioned and later transferred to Taiwan

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) deployed in 1984

and every sailor aboard understood that the mission had changed forever

where Sam Houston's Texian Army defeated Mexican forces under General Santa Anna in eighteen minutes and secured Texas independence

Every member of her final crews shared in a piece of the most storied career in carrier aviation history

killed 241 American service members

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) deployed in 1995

USS Ford (FFG-54) — a guided-missile frigate whose service spanned the Cold War

Over her career she supported Operation Desert Storm

when the vulnerability of American warships in foreign ports became tragically clear