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Custom USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) "Shitters Full" deployment morale PVC patch.
Two new toilet systems, one giant carrier, one universal underway truth — the heads will fail at the worst possible moment.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the lead ship of the Ford-class supercarriers and the U.S. Navy's first new-class carrier design since the Nimitz-class entered service in 1975, was commissioned on July 22, 2017 — and her early operational years were defined by the long, public process of working through the technological growing pains of brand-new systems: the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), the dual-band radar, the Advanced Weapons Elevators, and — most famously among Sailors and shipyard workers — the new vacuum waste system that runs the ship's heads (toilets). Ford and her sister ship USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) use a redesigned vacuum sewer system, and in the early years the system clogged often enough that the Navy reportedly spent over $400,000 per acid-flush cycle to clear the lines, with crews sometimes losing head functionality for hours. Ford Sailors turned the ordeal into morale gear, and the "Shitters Full" patch (with its very direct National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation reference) was born — a piece of fleet humor that says everything about life underway when the systems don't cooperate. The carrier has since worked through the bulk of her plumbing and operational challenges and completed her maiden combat deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean in 2023 supporting U.S. response to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. The patch is forever.
Perfect For: USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) plankowners and crew, Ford-class shipyard workers and engineers, Newport News Shipbuilding alumni, U.S. Navy Sailors who appreciate underway morale humor, Christmas Vacation fans, and aircraft carrier deployment patch collectors.
USS Ford — Shitters full. Patch on. Sailing forward.
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