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    CVN-78....USS Gerald Ford?!?!?!

    http://staging.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1875749&C=america


    The first ship of the U.S. Navy’s newest class of aircraft carrier is likely to carry the name of the nation’s 38th president, if a measure passed June 16 by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

    The amendment to the 2007 defense authorization bill calls for CVN 78, the first ship of the new CVN 21 class, to be named after Gerald Ford.
    If approved by House-Senate conferees and signed into law, the name would perpetuate a string of naming aircraft carriers after recent Republican presidents. The two previous aircraft carriers have been named George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

    Many veterans had written the secretary of the Navy to request that the next carrier be named America, after an earlier ship of that name was sunk last year in tests. The authority to name ships of the Navy is vested in the office of the secretary.


    God I hate the current naming convention of the Carriers, especially with the way the Republicans have been pissing all over the traditional naming scheme.

    (which isn't to say the Dems weren't as guilty, what with the Stennis and Truman, but still....)
    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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    Reagan I can see, but Gerald Ford?

    That'll sure strike fear into the hearts of our enemies.
    Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

    When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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    • #3
      It'll probably sink itself.

      ACK!
      Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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        Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

        When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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        • #5
          Newflash!

          Wave after wave of attackcraft from the U.S.S. Gerald Ford pounded enemy positions today. Subsequent reconnaisance photographs indicate that the strikes were totally ineffective.

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          • #6
            Is it really a wise idea to name a ship after a famous klutz?
            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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            • #7
              "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
              -Joan Robinson

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              • #8
                What name would you prefer?
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #9
                  Pretty much any name is somewhat better than this one. The veterans seem to want America.
                  "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
                  -Joan Robinson

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                  • #10
                    Question directed more at Lonestar, but your preference is noted.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #11
                      If we're going to name US carriers after republican presidents, can't we at least get a war hero? How about the USS Ulysses S Grant? Or if we went with non-republican president then how about the USS Franklin Pierce or the USS Zachary Taylor?

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                      • #12
                        Many veterans had written the secretary of the Navy to request that the next carrier be named America, after an earlier ship of that name was sunk last year in tests.
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                        • #13
                          What about Henry Ford?

                          Or USS Jack Bauer.
                          Blah

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                          • #14
                            We have HMS Invincible...I always thought that name was tempting fate a bit, myself
                            Speaking of Erith:

                            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                            • #15
                              British ship names rock. Indefatigable, Valiant, and obscure naval town names (Torbay?... ). A bit like Russian surface navy ship names (all brave, unbreakable etc.)
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