USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) 1995 Cruise Shirt

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USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) 1995 Cruise ShirtUSS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) was commissioned on July 4, 1991 Independence Day a fitting birthday for the lead ship of what would become the most successful destroyer class in U. S. Navy history. Named for Fleet Admiral Arleigh "31 Knot" Burke, the destroyer commander who never lost a ship in 22 engagements across the Solomon Islands campaign in World War II, DDG 51 set the standard for every destroyer that followed. Her 1995 deployment took her into

The Mediterranean had been tense all year — the Line of Death

Everything changed on September 11

another year of the Long War requiring another sustained deployment from the Navy's forward presence in the Western Pacific

USS America answered the call before the ink was dry on the United Nations resolutions

USS Antietam (CG-54) kept the watch in 2007

The USS Cole attack on October 12

Named for a WWII beachhead won through sheer determination

Deployed to the Western Pacific with Carrier Task Force 77 in the Gulf of Tonkin

From the Korean Peninsula to the Strait of Malacca

You wore the ship's name proudly

and this cruise shirt is a lasting reminder of it

and American troop levels were falling