Posted on 09/17/2008 10:12:37 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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Can you elaborate on this? Will the carrier be able to fire torpedos?
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I think they should never have started naming carriers after politicians, especially not that one. Naming them after old carriers would be good. I would love for them to return to the Midway class custom of naming bird farms after places naval aviators made their names shine. USS Marianas (AKA Turkey Shoot) and USS Yankee Station would be proud names indeed!
It's that simple.
And, politics being what it is, for every Ford there will be a Clinton, for every Vinson, a Barney Frank.
It's inevitable.
So if you support naming these wonderful national symbols after Ford and Bush, don't complain when the USS Barney Frank is announced.
Much better to use famous battles, symbols, or ideals.
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I don’t know why the Kennedy, Kitty Hawk, and Constellation were conventionally powered, well after nuclear power had been successfully introduced to carriers. I worked on the Kennedy in 1968 when it was being readied for final delivery to the Navy. As others have mentioned, these decisions were made well before Carter was President.
There is a carrier Roosevelt, but it’s the other Roosevelt. However, there is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, DDG-80, named after FDR.
FDR and Jimmah hae been the only Presidents since WWII to have any ship other than a carrier named after them.
I like the choice of a sub for Carter (if they HAD to name a ship after him). A submarine. Unseen, and unheard of. Unless it screws up. Perfect.
CV-42 was originally planned to be named the Coral Sea but the name was changed before christening following the death of FDR. Coral Sea was used as the name of the third (and last) Midway-class carrier, CV-43. Midway (CV-41) and Coral Sea served past the 80’s. Midway even participated in Desert Storm.
Kitty Hawk and Constellation were both built BEFORE Enterprise, which was the first nuclear power carrier. The two conventionals after Enterprise were the America and the Kennedy. I always read that Congress didn’t want to spend the money to build them nuke, so they were built conventional.
The government spent that saved money and much more pumping fuel into those ships all those years.
Why first Bush?
You can bet money that somewhere in the new class will be a USS William Clinton, probably the third one. Maybe even a USS Barack Obama.
Bureau of Personnel. They've got a lot of people there who do nothing but issue transfer orders all day long. Pick 5000 people and order them to report on board.
Hell yes. The last three carriers have been Republicans. You don't think the Democrats are going to want to even things up? Woodrow Wilson...Lyndon Johnson...another John F Kennedy...William Clinton...count on it.
Actually, she has the largest flight deck not on a CV or LC. Might even handle a F-35B or several UCAV’s.
I’m really waiting to see how this one works out...
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