USS New Jersey (BB-62) 1986 Cruise Sweatshirt

USS New Jersey (BB-62) continued her active service throughout the mid-1980s as the centerpiece of Surface Action Group operations. Her 1986 cruise was part of her second period of active service, recommissioned in 1982 under the Reagan administration's 600-ship Navy buildup. During this era New Jersey demonstrated the enduring value of battleship firepower as a tool of naval diplomacy and deterrence, operating in the Pacific and supporting forward-deployed forces across multiple theaters. This sweatshirt commemorates New Jersey's 1986 cruise, a chapter in the remarkable three-decade operational story of the world's most powerful surface combatant.