USS Antietam (CG-54) 2009 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Antietam (CG-54) 2009 Cruise SweatshirtBy 2009, the wars that had defined a generation were shifting. The Iraq drawdown was underway under the Status of Forces Agreement, but Afghanistan was heating up as President Obama announced a new surge of 30,000 troops in December. USS Antietam (CG 54), homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, deployed into this uncertain strategic environment during her 2009 WESTPAC cruise patrolling the waters of the Western Pacific and maintaining the forward presence that

Operation Odyssey Dawn launched on March 19

Antietam's Aegis Combat System kept watch over one of the world's most consequential maritime crossroads while the nation's attention was divided between two land wars

The summer of 1990 brought crisis to the Persian Gulf when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom

USS Antietam (CG-54) sailed her 1992 deployment in the wake of two historic events — the end of the Cold War and the triumph of Operation Desert Storm

and deter across every horizon

Operation Deny Flight demanded constant vigilance — her aircraft patrolling skies over a divided Europe

defining a chapter of the Cold War

CV-66 was in position when Desert Storm lit up the skies on January 17

her flight deck a symbol of steady American resolve as the Eastern Mediterranean trembled

USS Anzio honored her legacy in the skies over Afghanistan — her crew firing precision cruise missiles into the regime that had harbored the men who attacked America

Operation El Dorado Canyon sent her jets over Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for Gaddafi's terrorism

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