USS Constellation (CV-64) 1977 Cruise Shirt

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USS Constellation (CV-64) 1977 Cruise ShirtIn 1977, USS Constellation (CV 64) deployed on a Western Pacific cruise joining the long line of "Connie" deployments that kept American airpower present from the Sea of Japan to the Indian Ocean. Commissioned October 27, 1961, Constellation was a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier with Vietnam already in her wake and decades of service ahead. The 1977 crew carried forward a fighting tradition built on hard years of combat and Cold War presence, standing

Saddam Hussein remained in power under UN sanctions

The sailors who made that last voyage brought her home with honor

Arabian Sea

she has served as one of the Pacific Fleet's premier power-projection platforms

NATO was struggling to end the Bosnian War — a conflict that had already cost over 100

In the years after the Cold War

USS Constellation (CVA-64) and her crew stood watch through the final chapter of a long and costly conflict

and USS America (CV-66) was right in the middle of it

The year 2000 delivered a stark warning

The 1974 crew served in a changed world: quieter headlines

but Afghanistan was heating up as President Obama announced a new surge of 30

Few deployments in the history of naval aviation produced results as decisive as this one