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Laura Bush Christens USS Texas (second Virginia-class SSN)
Navy News ^
| 7/31/04
Posted on 08/01/2004 7:24:34 AM PDT by pabianice
Northrop Grumman Newport News celebrated its first submarine christening in nearly a decade when Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and the ship’s sponsor, broke a bottle of American-made sparkling wine across the hull of the Virginia-class submarine Texas (SSN 775). Also pictured is U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Tom Schievelbein, Northrop Grumman Newport News president.
Photo by Chris Oxley, Northrop Grumman Newport News
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: christening; laurabush; newportnews; northropgrumman; submarine; usn; usstexas; virginiaclass
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Apparently Theresa Heinz-Kerry was unavailable...
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:24:35 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
They're christening with Ketchup now?
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:28:31 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: pabianice
Apparently Theresa Heinz-Kerry was unavailable...Good thing too..."Semellier! Remove this domestic swill at once!"
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:28:55 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Be a Dollar a Day FReeper, and SMILE when you get your Mastercard bill!)
To: pabianice
Laura Bush can only christen it. ter-AY-za could buy it. :-)
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:29:00 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Sandy, is that a top secret document in your pants or are you just happy to see me?)
To: pabianice
broke a bottle of American-made sparkling wineI'm glad that made the press release.
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:29:38 AM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
There was a time when battleships were given names of the states and the subs werte named for fish.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
".....There was a time when battleships were given names of the states and the subs werte named for fish...."
Until the REAL battleships arrived, lol.
One of these boats could take out most of Old Europe.
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:38:28 AM PDT
by
Victor
To: pabianice
Any questions?
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:38:50 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Kerry said in his convention speech "Judge me by my record"...)
To: Grampa Dave
LMAO!
As a Texan im proud to have our name on a sub. ts nuclear assume.
To: No Blue States
Its nuclear.
You, Texans have something else to brag about and be proud of. Of course the lady who did the honors, is at the top with her husband, GW.
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:44:10 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Kerry said in his convention speech "Judge me by my record"...)
To: pabianice
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:44:17 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: Victor
SSNs are attack boats, ie hunter-killers that go after other subs and major surface combatants, tho they could be armed with nuclear tipped land attack cruise missiles I suppose. SSBNs or boomers are the missile boats.
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:45:12 AM PDT
by
skepsel
To: pabianice
"American-made sparkling wine" ... GOOD!
Glad it wasn't FRENCH CHAMPAGNE!
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posted on
08/01/2004 7:47:36 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Victor
I think you're on to something.
To: Victor
One of these boats could take out most of Old Europe.
It doesn't carry any nuclear weapons.
To: Strategerist
It doesn't carry any nuclear weapons.Don't fool yourself. On the record, of course, it carries no nuclear weapons. With a wrench, you can screw in a W50 warhead into the tomahawks, ADCAP mines, or Mk48 torpedos in less than 2 hours. Tomahawk warheads have to be installed in dock because they are in the VLS tubes and cant be opened while at sea. The torpedos, mines, etc can be worked in inside the sub. The warhead is about the size of a 17" CRT monitor.
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posted on
08/01/2004 9:43:17 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
To: skepsel
"...SSNs are attack boats, ie hunter-killers that go after other subs and major surface combatants, tho they could be armed with nuclear tipped land attack cruise missiles I suppose. SSBNs or boomers are the missile boats...."
I stand corrected...you are right. The missile boats are Ohio class, based mostly in King's Bay, no?
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posted on
08/01/2004 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
Victor
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"...I think you're on to something...."
One day I realized that the US Navy is the most powerful force on Earth....they could literally wipe out life on this planet.
Sure glad they work for us...
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posted on
08/01/2004 8:34:15 PM PDT
by
Victor
To: Victor
You got me on that one, my knowledge of things naval comes from the popular press, Tom Clancy novels and talking to a few of the retired squids here at work!
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posted on
08/02/2004 4:35:29 AM PDT
by
skepsel
To: Eric in the Ozarks
There was a time when battleships were given names of the states and the subs werte named for fish.Actually, I was going to ask something about that as well... I was under the impression that the most recent classes of subs were that SSBNs (the ballistic missile subs, like the Ohio class) were named for states, and the SSNs (the hunter/killers, like the Los Angeles class) were named for cities.
Is this because of the ability of the newer subs to fire cruise missiles?
Mark
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posted on
08/02/2004 4:43:45 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Dude!!! You're farting fire!!!!)
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