USN Ships Cruise patches WESTPAC MED PG IO

October 5, 2017

Philippine made USS RANGER (CV-61) West Pac 1980-1981 Iranian Crisis cruise patch (note the yellow ribbon for the hostages)

TOP GUN IS A 10

A bit of Naval trivia, RANGER's nick-name was TOP GUN as shown on this patch, well before the 1986 movie was filmed on her decks

November 6, 2017

USS STICKELL WEST-PAC

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I just picked up one today. It was her only WESTPAC CRUISE .

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March 10, 2018

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

March 11, 2018

From the USS Ronald Reagan -

Larry

March 11, 2018

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

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

April 28, 2018

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

June 18, 2018

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

June 18, 2018

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

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

July 21, 2018

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

July 23, 2018

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

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

August 25, 2018

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

August 26, 2018

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

September 28, 2018

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

May 13, 2019

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

June 25, 2019

USS COURTNEY DE-1021

1972 Med Cruise.

Approx 6"

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July 7, 2019

VA-23 YANKEE TEAM USS ORISKANY 1969

Japanese made

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January 4, 2020

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 the Kennedy assassination her cold war ASW srike 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)

January 4, 2020

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

January 4, 2020