USS Norfolk (SSN-714) Ship's Crest Sweatshirt

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USS Norfolk (SSN-714) Ship's Crest SweatshirtUSS Norfolk (SSN 714) is a Los Angeles class fast attack submarine commissioned on May 21, 1994, at Norfolk, Virginia. An improved 688 class boat, she is equipped with advanced sonar systems and capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles and mines from her torpedo tubes. Norfolk is home ported at Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval installation and the city for which she was named.

With the Cold War over and the Gulf War won

keeping the Aegis watch and maintaining combat readiness through another demanding year at sea

Her 1962 deployment brought her into Caribbean waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the closest the world came to nuclear war

Vicksburg is named for the Siege of Vicksburg (1863) — one of the most consequential campaigns of the Civil War

yet the world remained far from quiet

The sailors of the 1990 cruise deployed into the opening act of a new era in American naval history

the Korean War

Navy escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through waters where the Iran-Iraq Tanker War had made the sea lanes a hazard

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) deployed in 2007

She was decommissioned in 1991 after 24 years of indispensable service to the fleet

barely two years after commissioning — putting the second Nimitz-class nuclear carrier to sea in earnest for the first time

This sweatshirt commemorates the 1996 cruise and honors the crew who served