[tanknetter]

I sure would hate to be on ship carrying the name USS Jimmy Carter......

I've heard that her crew doesn't even call her the "Carter", but rather the "23 Boat" ("23" being her hull number).

I've never really had a problem with her name tho. Carter was the first submariner to become POTUS (even though he left the service early due to hardship to run his family farm), AND he authorized those early cable-tapping missions against the USSR. One of the few things he actually did right, AND the kind of mission the USS Carter was redesigned (she's 100' longer than her two sisters to carry special equipment and ROVs) to carry out.

[Gaffer]

Whatever good this fool did, either before his term or during, was erased completely with his support of foreign despost and terrorist regimes hostile to the US. I put John McCain in that same boat.

[John S Mosby]

Yeah, and he was a “nukular” engineer— so he said. What a laugh, and what a truly octomarroon wannabee officer. Utter failure— except at building crap quality “habitat” homes for his buddies in the real estate “affordable” homes racket. Habitat now being a complete moneymaking operation masquerading as public policy- in keeping with Carter’s “venture socialism” and “tut-tut” world morality.

You can bet warriors don’t use the dude’s name and indeed do call it the “23 Boat”. Imagine a SSN named obamaumao. With mixed lesbo/fem/male/homo crewmembers. Oh yeah, the dems have done soooo much for the Silent Service. LOL.

[fatman6502002]

Gaffer,
I think the other two, Seawolf and Connecticut, have been or are going to be upgraded to the same configuration as the 23 boat. They are all part of Submarine Development Squadron 5 or COMSUBDEVRON5. These three are specially outfitted to carry out special intelligence gathering operations.