{"title":"USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUSS Josephus Daniels (CG-27): Named for the Navy's Prohibition Secretary\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned on 8 May 1965, USS Josephus Daniels was a Belknap-class guided missile cruiser named for Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921. Daniels is remembered in naval lore primarily for General Order 99, issued in June 1914, which banned alcohol from U.S. Navy ships. The coffee that replaced it became known as \"a cup of Joe,\" a piece of etymology that naval historians debate but sailors have accepted for over a century. Whatever the origin, Daniels shaped the Navy in ways that outlasted his tenure by generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the coffee order, Daniels managed the Navy's expansion that prepared it for World War I, oversaw a massive buildup of naval aviation, and brought in a young Franklin Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His tenure was consequential in ways the alcohol ban overshadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJosephus Daniels served through the Vietnam era earning three battle stars for Western Pacific deployments and Gulf of Tonkin operations as part of the carrier task forces conducting American naval operations in Southeast Asia. Beyond Vietnam she served in the sustained Cold War pattern of fleet deployments and carrier task force operations that characterized American naval strategy throughout the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe was decommissioned on 30 October 1990. Three Vietnam battle stars, decades of Cold War service, and a name that every sailor who ever drank coffee at sea owes a grudging acknowledgment. Tactically Acquired's USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27) collection honors the cruiser and the Secretary whose naval legacy lasted longer than his alcohol ban.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/tacticallyacquired.com\/collections\/uss-josephus-daniels-cg-27-merchandise.oembed","provider":"Tactically Acquired","version":"1.0","type":"link"}