Ship's Log
USS Boxer LHD-4: The 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment
USS Boxer LHD-4 carried the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit into the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom, her amphibious threat pinning Iraqi coastal defenses while the main assault came overland.
USS Leyte Gulf CG-55: The 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment
USS Leyte Gulf CG-55, a Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruiser, launched Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iraqi command and control targets in the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003.
USS Iowa BB-61: The Reagan-Era Battleship Returns
USS Iowa BB-61 was recommissioned in 1984 after 26 years in mothballs, then lost 47 sailors when Turret II's center gun exploded during a gunnery exercise on April 19, 1989.
USS San Jacinto CG-56: The 1991 Desert Storm Deployment
USS San Jacinto CG-56 launched the opening Tomahawk salvo of Operation Desert Storm at 12:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, striking Iraqi command and control targets from the Red Sea.
USS Nimitz CVN-68: The 1985 WESTPAC Deployment
USS Nimitz CVN-68 ran a 1985 Western Pacific deployment with CVW-9 embarked, conducting presence operations and exercises with allied navies during the sustained Cold War competition in the Pacific.
USS Cole DDG-67: The 2000 Aden Bombing
USS Cole DDG-67 was struck by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomb boat while refueling in Aden, Yemen on October 12, 2000, killing 17 sailors — but her crew's damage control efforts kept the ship afloat.