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Captain Kirk Will Command America's Newest Stealth Destroyer
Jalopnik ^
| 10/31/2013
| Raphael Orlove
Posted on 10/31/2013 9:22:23 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers
A man named James Kirk will be the captain of the $4bn USS Zumwalt, the first of America's new stealth destroyers. No, I am not making this up.
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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: americasnewest; capnkirk; destroyer; navy; startrek; zumwalt
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Be really great if the COB was named “Scotty”...
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:25:56 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Unless he’s commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise, this is unimportant news.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:26:05 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Perhaps he will sneak up on a vulcan spaceship and we will have first contact.
4
posted on
10/31/2013 9:26:29 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
And will they have a gay helmsman? It is the new Navy after all.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:26:39 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: PGR88
Maybe, but my question is... will said gay helmsman be Japanese-American?
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Cap’n, there be whales here!
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:30:37 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
The bow is obviously designed to pierce larger waves when in rough seas, but it also seems they mounted the VLS towards the front as well.
Won’t it be difficult for her to fire them in heavy seas?
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:31:13 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: PGR88
Lol...if his middle name is Tiberius that would clinch it
To: SoldierDad
Commanding a ship this advanced is a good step towards a bigger command later on, and one of the next Ford-class carriers due off the ways *will* be named Enterprise, so...
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:32:59 AM PDT
by
Little Pig
(Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:33:03 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
It’d be awesome if he was James T Kirk.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:34:53 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Abathar
Two cannon forward, main VLS battery towards rear last I heard.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:35:59 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I’m told there was once a detective on a west coast police force named Pepper whose brother was an ER doctor in a hospital near by. That’s Sargent and Doctor Pepper at the same Thanksgiving able.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:36:25 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: PGR88
There were no homosexual caricatures on Star Trek
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:37:31 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:39:17 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
To: Abathar
Scratch that, she has “Peripheral VLS” that scatters the tubes around the hull instead of in one huge block that could mass detonate and chop the ship in half.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:40:01 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Just say NO to one sentence posts!
18
posted on
10/31/2013 9:42:08 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: svcw
Sulu was a bit of a gay blade in one episode.
19
posted on
10/31/2013 9:44:52 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Maybe Obama can sell the cloaking device to our Chinese overlords.
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posted on
10/31/2013 9:45:07 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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