USS San Jacinto (CG-56)

USS San Jacinto (CG-56): Remember the Alamo , Then Win

Commissioned on 23 January 1988, USS San Jacinto was named for the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836, the eighteen-minute engagement in which Sam Houston's Texan Army annihilated Santa Anna's Mexican force and secured Texas independence. The battle cry was "Remember the Alamo." The outcome was a republic. Named for one of the most decisive small-unit battles in North American history, San Jacinto joined a Navy that understood decisive action at the strategic level.

San Jacinto served as a principal Tomahawk-firing platform during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, launching cruise missile strikes against Iraqi strategic targets as part of the coalition air campaign that preceded and accompanied the ground offensive. Her engagement was part of the broader Tomahawk campaign that demonstrated surface combatants could deliver strategic effects independent of carrier aviation.

Beyond Desert Storm, San Jacinto accumulated a substantial service record across multiple theaters. Persian Gulf deployments, Atlantic operations, carrier strike group screening missions across two decades of post-Cold War naval operations , the full operational biography of an Aegis cruiser maintained at high readiness through the most demanding decades of American forward naval presence.

San Jacinto remained one of the more active Ticonderoga-class hulls through the 2010s, continuing regular deployments in the carrier strike group role.

Tactically Acquired's USS San Jacinto (CG-56) collection honors the ship that carried the name of Texas's most decisive battle into the modern Navy and proved it in the Persian Gulf.