USS Saratoga (CV-60) Indian Ocean Yacht Club Sweatshirt

The "Indian Ocean Yacht Club" is the time-honored title claimed by sailors who have served extended deployments through the Indian Ocean — one of the most demanding and remote operating environments in the world. USS Saratoga (CV-60), the Forrestal-class carrier commissioned on April 14, 1956 and homeported at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, made multiple transits through the Indian Ocean during her service life, most critically during the period of heightened tensions following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when sustained carrier presence in the region became a national priority. This sweatshirt is the proud badge of any Saratoga veteran who earned their Indian Ocean Yacht Club membership aboard one of America's finest flattops.