USN Ships Cruise patches WESTPAC MED PG IO

[Salvage Sailor]

USS RECLAIMER (ARS-42) DIVERS - WESTPAC 1980 made in the PI

 

USS RECLAIMER (ARS-42) OPERATIONS WEST PAC 1980

 

 

[US82Bravo]

From the USS Ronald Reagan -

 

 

 

 

Larry

[Salvage Sailor]

USS POINT CRUZ (CVE-119) HUK TO BUCK-ANEERS - Commencement Bay class Escort Carrier

TASK GROUP 70.4 1955-1956 ASW HUNTER KILLER (HUK) GROUP - TYPHOON SEASON - LOUISE, MARGE, NORA, OPAL, PATSY RUTH

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) 6" x 6" Mediterranean Cruise 1980-1981, Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, France, Egypt

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) The Big E - 1986 World Cruise - Any Fleet, Any Time - Pacific, Atlantic Indian Ocean, Suez, Mediterranean

 

 

During this cruise the Big E 'chopped' with the First, Second, Third, Sixth and Seventh Fleets

 

 

1986 25th Anniversary World Cruise Book https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cvn65-86/001.htm

[Salvage Sailor]

USS RAMSEY (FFG-2) Brooke class guided missile destroyer escort in service 1967 to 1988. She was redesignated from DEG-2 to FFG-2 in 1975

1976-1977 WESTPAC INDIAN OCEAN Cruise - 7" Round cruise jacket size

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS PAUL F FOSTER (DD-964) Persian Gulf North Arabian Gulf Deployment 1992

 

 

6" Jacket patch - Death points the way.....

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) Midway class carrier in service 1947 to 1990 Japanese made removed from a work jacket.

Far East Cruise 1963 - This was the end of an era, for the rest of the decade the Far East faded away and from 1964 on WESTPAC meant a Vietnam War cruise

 

[firefighter]

USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) Midway class carrier in service 1947 to 1990 Japanese made removed from a work jacket.

 

Far East Cruise 1963 - This was the end of an era, for the rest of the decade the Far East faded away and from 1964 on WESTPAC meant a Vietnam War cruise

Great looking patch

[skio]

A recent find. The WESTPAC 1969 is in gold tinsel thread and was hard to capture in the photo

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SAMPSON (DDG-10) Charles F. Adams class in service 1961 to 1991. She was an Atlantic Fleet Cold Warrior and her final cruise was Desert Shield in 1990-1991 before heading to the scrapyard

 

On August 7, 1990 the Sampson deployed with the USS Saratoga battle group in support of Desert Shield/Storm. Once there the Sampson performed the final Adams class guided missile destroyer deployment as a unit of the Maritime Interception Force, conducting the first boarding and search of a merchant on 28 AUG 1990, during OPERATION DESERT SHIELD and the first diversion of a ship with prohibited cargo. After conducting the first-ever exercise ASROC shot in the Red Sea, USS SAMPSON operated with ships of various NATO navies conducting surveillance and protection of shipping in the approaches to the Suez Canal. Sampson was decommissioned on 24 June 1991 exactly 30 years after commissioning,

 

Mediterranean Cruise 90-91 / Red Sea Operation Desert Shield

 

[firefighter]

USS COURTNEY DE-1021

1972 Med Cruise.

 

Approx 6"

 

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[firefighter]

VA-23 YANKEE TEAM USS ORISKANY 1969

 

Japanese made

 

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[Salvage Sailor]

On 7/7/2019 at 1:59 PM, firefighter said:

VA-23 YANKEE TEAM USS ORISKANY 1969

 

Japanese made

 

 

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Great patch

 

 

USS ESSEX (CVS-9) October-November 1963 Middle East Cruise - During the days before and after the Kennedy assassination her cold war ASW strike group had been deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean.

 

USS Essex (CVS-9) steaming next to the Pakistani anti-submarine frigate PNS Tughril (261)— formerly HMS Onslaught (G04)—on 22 November 1963, in the Arabian Sea. Admiral James S. Russell is being transferred during Midling VI exercises.

 

 

View of the collapsed mast on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) in the aftermath of the carrier encountering a storm in the North Atlantic while returning from a deployment, 17 December 1963. Essex, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 60 (CVSG-60), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 1 October to 20 December 1963. The mast damaged a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk of Marine Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 32 (H&MS-32)

 

 

 

 

USS ESSEX (CVS-9) with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 60 (CVSG-60), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 1 October to 20 December 1963

 

[firefighter]

Generic CR Div

 

Generic

Japanese made

 

USS QUEENFISH ASIATIC CRUISE 1962

Rare early Vietnam and Submarine cruise patch

 

USS Hancock

Operation Frequent Wind and Eagle Pull

 

NAVSECGRUDET FIVE CTF 77 1964-1966 

Large Japanese made

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS HADDO (SSN-604) Permit class attack submarine in service 1964 to 1991

 

 

...In December 1978, HADDO again deployed to the Western Pacific, visited New Zealand and returned in 1979....

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 9/28/2018 at 11:57 AM, skio said:

A recent find. The WESTPAC 1969 is in gold tinsel thread and was hard to capture in the photo

 

 

 

I've always appreciated the modern design elements of this airframe gaggle patch as depicted in the CVA island & 63 hull.  When you have this one in hand, the gold thread gleams and really pops out.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

THE BLACK DRAGON, 16 INCH LANDSCAPING LOWERING MOUNTAINS

USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) BEIRUIT, LEBANON 1982-1983

 

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 - The United States battleship New Jersey bombarded Druse and Syrian gun batteries in Lebanon for more than nine hours today in the heaviest and most sustained American military action since the marines arrived here 16 months ago.

 

The gunfire was directed at targets ''in Syrian-controlled Lebanon which have been firing on the city of Beirut,'' a Marine spokesman, Maj. Dennis Brooks, said. The shells fired into the capital had landed in Christian-dominated East Beirut, several miles from the Marine compound at Beirut International Airport.

 

In Washington, the Pentagon said the destroyer Caron joined in the bombardment, firing more than 300 five-inch shells. It said the New Jersey fired more than 250 16-inch shells.

 

 

According to the Lebanese Christian Phalangist radio, the American bombardment pounded artillery and missile batteries from Shuweifat, just south of Beirut, all the way to around Shtaura, 22 miles east of the capital. The radio said 30 Druse and Syrian gun batteries had been knocked out along with a Druse military command post.

 

 

The New Jersey's huge 16-inch guns could be clearly seen spewing long yellow flames as they blasted away from the ship's position south of Beirut. Each round fired by its gunners shook the entire city. Windows rattled, and the terrifying roar sent the few people on the streets scattering for cover.

 

A 16-inch shell, roughly the weight of a small car, packs enough firepower to slash a 200-yard-wide clearing out of dense, triple-canopy jungle while also shredding trees and underbrush for 400 yards beyond, according to Navy officials.  A full broadside from the New Jersey's nine big guns "will level almost anything standing within an area the size of one square mile," according to a Navy article on the battleship.  The ship is also capable of firing heavier, armor-piercing shells which can penetrate "30 feet of reinforced concrete and have been known to reconfigure islands and mountains," the article noted.

 

"There will be a lot of holes," one Pentagon official said of last week's bombardment.  "It oughta look like the moon up there."

 

 

 

 

...and a bonus

USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) WESTPAC 1988 AUSTRALIAN BICENTENNIAL