USS Ponce (LPD-15) Ship's Crest Sweatshirt

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USS Ponce (LPD-15) Ship's Crest SweatshirtUSS Ponce (LPD 15) is an Austin class amphibious transport dock commissioned on May 10, 1971, and homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. Named for the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, she had a career spanning over four decades and served in multiple combat operations, including the evacuation of Saigon in 1975 and Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In her final years, Ponce was redesignated as the Navy's first Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB), supporting special

she serves with the Atlantic Fleet and has completed multiple deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf throughout her career

operating as part of the forward-deployed naval forces during a period of heightened tension across the Pacific theater

and kept contested skies overhead as allied forces pushed into some of the heaviest anti-aircraft defenses of the war

a proud tribute to her three decades of service as America's flagship amphibious warrior

USS Independence (CV-62) was among the first carrier battle groups to respond to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2

conducting ballistic missile defense

arriving in the Gulf of Tonkin as the air war over Vietnam continued following the Tet Offensive and subsequent bombing halt negotiations

yellow ribbons

VFA-14 Tophatters traces its lineage to 1919

" flew F-14 Tomcats and later F/A-18F Super Hornets from NAS Lemoore

the Navy's transformation was undeniable — bigger

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