The Cape St. George, commissioned in 1993, is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser named for the 1943 destroyer engagement where five American destroyers defeated a numerically superior Japanese force in the Solomon Islands. She has deployed to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf as both an AEGIS air defense platform and a Tomahawk strike platform, demonstrating the full offensive and defensive capability of the Ticonderoga class. Her crew has always brought the aggressive professionalism her name demands.