Ship's Log
USS Nassau LHA-4: The 1990-91 Desert Storm Deployment
USS Nassau LHA-4 and the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade maintained a credible amphibious threat off Kuwait during Desert Storm, tying down over 80,000 Iraqi troops without a single Marine landing on the beach.
USS Louisville SSN-724: The First Tomahawk Fired in Combat
USS Louisville SSN-724 fired the first Tomahawk cruise missile ever launched from a submarine in combat, striking Iraq from the Red Sea on the opening night of Desert Storm, January 17, 1991.
USS New Jersey BB-62: The 1983-84 Lebanon Deployment
USS New Jersey BB-62 arrived off Lebanon in 1983 after the Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 Marines, firing more than 280 sixteen-inch rounds at Syrian and Druze positions before withdrawing in 1984.
USS Lexington CV-16: The Blue Ghost
USS Lexington CV-16, nicknamed the Blue Ghost after Tokyo Rose falsely claimed her sunk, fought across the Pacific in WWII and later trained generations of Naval aviators at Pensacola until 1991.
The Flight Deck: The Most Dangerous Workplace in the World
The carrier flight deck is one of the world's most dangerous workplaces, run by a color-coded jersey system — yellow shirts directing aircraft, purple 'grapes' fueling, red shirts handling ordnance.
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42: The Cold War Mediterranean Carrier
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42 served as the Navy's preeminent Cold War Mediterranean carrier, deploying with the Sixth Fleet through the Suez Crisis, Lebanon, and decades of Cold War flashpoints until 1977.