USS Ramage (DDG-61) 1996-97 MAIDEN DEPLOYMENT Unisex Sweatshirt

USS Ramage (DDG-61) is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided-missile destroyer commissioned on January 22, 1994, homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Named for Rear Admiral Lawson P. "Red" Ramage, who earned the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary valor in command of USS Parche (SS-384) during a ferocious night surface battle in the Pacific on July 31, 1944. This sweatshirt commemorates Ramage's 1996-97 maiden deployment, during which she made her first operational cruise as a commissioned warship, demonstrating the readiness and capability of the Arleigh Burke class in forward deployed operations.