USS Ranger (CV-61) 1987 Cruise Sweatshirt - Map

USS Ranger (CV-61) was a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier commissioned on August 10, 1957, homeported at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California. Named for the Continental sloop-of-war Ranger commanded by John Paul Jones, which in 1778 received the first salute ever given to an American flag by a foreign warship, Ranger served as one of the Pacific Fleet's premier carriers throughout the Cold War era. This sweatshirt commemorates her 1987 cruise and features a deployment route map design, tracing the course Ranger and her crew sailed during that Western Pacific deployment.