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USS Hue City (CG 66) is the first United States ship to bear this name and the only ship named after a battle of the Vietnam War. She is the twentieth Ticonderoga-class Aegis guided-missile cruiser. Her mission is to conduct prompt, sustained combat operations at sea in support of a carrier battle group or amphibious assault group. Hue City is assigned to Commander, Carrier Group Six, and is home-ported at Naval Station Mayport, near Jacksonville, FL.
USS Hue City (CG-66), the first United States ship to bear this name and the only ship named after a battle of the Vietnam War, is the twentieth in the Ticonderoga Class of Aegis guided-missile cruisers and the fourteenth to be built by Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Her keel was laid on 20 February 1989. She was floated on 1 June 1990 and christened on 21 July 1991 by her sponsor, Mrs. Jo Ann Cheatham, the wife of Lieutenant General Earnest C. Cheatham, Jr., USMC (Ret.). Hue City flies the the flag of the United States Marine Corps as well as the national ensign and the flag of the United States Navy.
Hue City sailed on 11 March 1993 for her maiden deployment to the Mediterranean Sea as Air Warfare Commander for the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) battle group. Principally operating in the Adriatic Sea, Hue City developed the air picture and transmitted it to command centers afloat and ashore. Hue City also monitored the safety of United Nations relief flights to Bosnia, ensuring Serbian aircraft did not violate no-fly zones.