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Official USS Eisenhower CVN-69 Navigation PVC Patch — Charting the Course for 100,000 Tons of American Diplomacy
Navigation department: because even a nuclear-powered city needs someone who knows where it’s going.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and one of the most deployed warships in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the “Ike” has spent decades projecting American power across the world’s oceans, from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. This PVC patch represents the ship’s Navigation department — the officers and enlisted sailors who are responsible for the safe navigation and piloting of a 100,000-ton floating airfield through some of the most contested waterways on the planet. Navigators on a carrier plot courses, maintain charts, manage bridge watch teams, and ensure the ship is always exactly where it needs to be — whether that’s launching strikes, conducting freedom of navigation operations, or threading through the Suez Canal at oh-dark-thirty.
Perfect For: USS Eisenhower CVN-69 Navigation department sailors and veterans, carrier bridge watchstanders, Quartermaster and Operations Specialist ratings, CVN-69 crew past and present, and anyone who helped steer the Ike.
CVN-69 Navigation — you can’t project power if you can’t find the ocean.
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