but that's just me.
Posted on 05/17/2011 5:52:51 PM PDT by La Lydia
The last of the 14 Lewis and Clark-class cargo ships that General Dynamics NASSCO is building in San Diego will be named after Cesar Chavez, the late civil rights and labor leader. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will visit NASSCO on Tuesday afternoon to make the formal announcement. Some members of the Chavez family are expected to be in attendance, says NASSCO, which recently laid the keel of the ship.
"We suggested the name Cesar Chavez for the ship because we're in Barrio Logan and want to be good neighbors, and we want to show respect for our workers," said James Gill, a NASSCO spokesman.
About 60 percent of NASSCO's 3,600 employees are Hispanic...
The names of the other 13 ships are: Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Alan Shepard, Richard E. Byrd, Robert E. Peary, Amelia Earhart, Carl Brashear, Wally Schirra, Matthew Perry, Charles Drew, Washington Chambers, William McLean, Medgar Evers....
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Just awful.
The names of the other 13 ships are: Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Alan Shepard, Richard E. Byrd, Robert E. Peary, Amelia Earhart, Carl Brashear, Wally Schirra, Matthew Perry, Charles Drew, Washington Chambers, William McLean, Medgar Evers...
Tokenism is alive and well in the USN
I almost threw up. If the USN wants to kiss latino ass, and for pc purposes, why not Juan Valdez? Or USS “The most interesting man in the world”?
A long time ago, I knew a Mexican-American Catholic priest who knew Cesar Chavez well and said he was a phony who lived in a nice house but posed for magazine and newspaper pictures on the front porch of a rundown migrants house that he used just for that purpose.
I’m surprised they didn’t name it the Hugo Chavez.
What a jerk Ray Mabus is, this ship named for Chavez is on a par with the USS John P. Murtha.
but that's just me.
I guess he wasn’t all bad...
Welcome to Obama’s Navy. Future naval vessel names: the Jeremiah Wright, the Saul Alinksy, the Mumia Abu Jamal, the William Ayers, the Malcolm X, and last but not least, the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
You mean to tell me that Caesar wasn’t some sort of admiral or something. No, the closest he cam to the Navy was rowing, rather then swimming across the Rio Grande. Just a disgrace. Now future fathers will not have the luxury of taking their children to see naval vessels named after people who were Naval Patriots. But then they will also have to show their kids a Suzuki Samurai as the “hot rod” of their generation.
So we’re naming ships after commies now.
Peachy.
I guess the navy wants to christen it with a cheap bottle of tequila...instead of a pot of coffee..
Was just looking over a photo of one of the Lewis and Clark class vessels, and wondering why no visible weaponry?
http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/pics/lewisandclark.jpg
Perhaps a knowledgeable Navy FReeper can fill us in as to why there aren’t some weapons on board if for nothing else to blast a pirate or two should the vessel be required to pass through the Indian Ocean.
These are USNS ships. Not USS. USNS are run primarily by civilians for freight, fuel and supply.
Thanks for that. Appreciate the response.
Why wouldn’t that surprise me?
They areprimarily for underway replenishment, they are covered by the weapon systems of the warships in the area...They don’t hang around in hostile waters for very long anyway...
At least that was the “system” we had in the days of WestPacs and I.O. cruises...They be the support ships that would dash to a port, load up, meetus out in the middle of no where, and we’d have a fun time hauling lines over to take on fuel, mail, dry stores, cold pallets (reefers), and we’d always try to get some new guy to go around the ship looking for the ship’s credit card to pay for all the stuff...
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