Ship's Log
Mail Call: The Letter That Crossed the Ocean
Mail call was the lifeline between deployed sailors and home, letters, cookies, and photographs delivered ship to ship by underway replenishment before email changed everything.
USS Hue City CG-66: The 1995 Adriatic Deployment and Operation...
USS Hue City CG-66 launched Tomahawks against Bosnian Serb air defenses during Operation Deliberate Force in 1995, the NATO air campaign that led to the Dayton Agreement.
USS Pittsburgh SSN-720: The 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment
USS Pittsburgh SSN-720 fired Tomahawk missiles from the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea at the opening of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003, striking Iraqi command targets.
USS Wasp LHD-1: The 1994 Adriatic Deployment and Operation Deny...
USS Wasp LHD-1 carried the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit into the Adriatic during Operation Deny Flight, enforcing the Bosnia no-fly zone through the mid-1990s.
USS Antietam CG-54: The 1991 Desert Storm Deployment
USS Antietam CG-54 fired Tomahawk missiles in the opening night of Desert Storm on January 17, 1991, then provided Aegis air defense through the 42-day air campaign.
Lights That Saved Ships: The Navy and the American Lighthouse
Before GPS, lighthouses gave Navy navigators an exact fix. National Lighthouse Day traces the service's history from the 1789 act to Honda Point and Cape Hatteras.