USS George Washington CVN-73 patch Backing:Hook and Loop The 4th Recruit Training Battalion

The 4th Recruit Training Battalion at MCRD Parris Island conducts recruit training as part of the depot's training regiment

This Vietnam-era patch preserves the Purple Foxes' identity as it appeared during their Southeast Asia deployments

it closed a chapter that had been written over fifty-one years of faithful service

the 1st Marine Division operated primarily in the I Corps tactical zone around Da Nang and the An Hoa Basin

The Diamondbacks — Atlantic Fleet Tomcat warriors who brought air superiority to every carrier deck they flew from

USS George Washington CVN-73 patch Backing:Hook and Loop The 4th Recruit Training BattalionUSS George Washington CVN 73 Patch The Spirit of Freedom at Sea Named for the Father of the Nation, CVN 73 carries the spirit of American independence across the world's oceans. USS George Washington (CVN 73) is a Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier commissioned in 1992. As one of the Navy's premier capital ships, CVN 73 has served in virtually every major theater of operations since her commissioning, from Operation Southern Watch over Iraq