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Navy names USS Gabrielle Giffords
The Hill ^ | 2/10/12 | Daniel Strauss and Jeremy Herb

Posted on 02/10/2012 12:18:59 PM PST by ColdOne

The Secretary of the Navy announced on Friday that a new littoral combat ship will be named after former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

The announcement comes the same day that President Obama signed the last piece of legislation sponsored by Giffords, a bill aimed at reducing drug trafficking along the American borders with Canada and Mexico.

Giffords, who recently stepped down from office, was the target of a shooting rampage in early January 2011.

“The name this ship bears and the story represented by that name will inspire all those who come in contact with her,” said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at a naming ceremony at the Pentagon Friday.

Giffords appeared at the ceremony with her husband, former Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Roxanna Green, the mother of Christina Taylor-Green, the 9-year-old girl who was killed at the Giffords shooting last year.

Mabus said that Green would be the sponsor of the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

The ship named after Giffords is a littoral combat ship, a smaller ship designed for operations close to the shore. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is the Navy’s 10th LCS ship.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; gabbygiffords; gabriellegiffords; giffords; inappropriate; mexico; navy; obamunism; politics; raymabus; usnavy
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To: Responsibility2nd

Great graphics are just wonderful!!!


141 posted on 02/10/2012 3:05:39 PM PST by Postman
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To: ColdOne
So this sets a precedence, if you get shot at by a left wing nut case, the US Navy will name a ship after you. Cool. /s
142 posted on 02/10/2012 3:08:17 PM PST by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: Toespi

Just wait until they name the USS Obama.

Luckily it won’t happen unless he gets another term. Normally two term Presidents get the Carrier names. Carter, Ford, Bush I were in the Navy which is why they were able to get a ship named. USS WILLIAM J. CLINTON will be way before an Obama (hopefully he won’t get a second term).


143 posted on 02/10/2012 3:09:17 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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What about the murdered Federal judge?


144 posted on 02/10/2012 3:15:09 PM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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To: ColdOne

They should of named it after Christina Taylor-Green, the 9-year-old girl who was killed


145 posted on 02/10/2012 3:27:54 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
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To: napscoordinator

I’m guessing Clinton will get the STD ward on a hospital ship named after him.


146 posted on 02/10/2012 3:49:06 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: ColdOne

coming soon: USS Matthew Shepard


147 posted on 02/10/2012 3:50:42 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: ColdOne

Well you can bet your ass on one thing for sure....the littoral ship program ain’t getting cut any time soon.


148 posted on 02/10/2012 3:52:07 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
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To: MATSEVAH
"It could be much worst it called be called the USS Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the USS Assad"

Or the USS Arafat. Or the USS Palestine. Yuck.

149 posted on 02/10/2012 3:56:35 PM PST by StormEye
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To: ColdOne

Did she vote for or against the military? In any case, there aren’t enough ships to honor each shooting victim in America.


150 posted on 02/10/2012 4:05:41 PM PST by alstewartfan (27 of 36 of Romney's judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Exactly. Name ships after someone has passed away. What if we had the USS OJ Simpson or the USS Charles Manson because they had done something miraculous in the military years before their crimes?


151 posted on 02/10/2012 4:09:31 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: ColdOne

Worst name for a warship since the HMS Gay Bruiser.


152 posted on 02/10/2012 4:16:43 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: ColdOne

I guess the boys and girls in the Pentagram couldn’t come up with a good explanation why they didn’t name it the USS Christina Taylor-Green and let Giffords be the sponsor.


153 posted on 02/10/2012 4:17:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (So just where does the "buck stop" at the Department of "Justice"?)
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To: ColdOne

I wish they had included her middle name:
USS Marxist Comrade Giffords


154 posted on 02/10/2012 4:51:07 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: ColdOne
John F'n Kerry is probably whining that he didn't get a ship named after himself given he was shot 3 times and has the medals, er, had the medals, no, now has the medals again to prove it. and the hat.





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155 posted on 02/10/2012 5:01:35 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
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To: chopperman; Yehuda; Jeremiah Jr
They should just rename the USS Cole.

Or the USS Arizona.

156 posted on 02/10/2012 5:08:54 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: ColdOne
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157 posted on 02/10/2012 5:16:59 PM PST by b4its2late (Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.)
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To: NonValueAdded
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158 posted on 02/10/2012 5:17:58 PM PST by b4its2late (Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.)
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To: ColdOne
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159 posted on 02/10/2012 5:22:18 PM PST by b4its2late (Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.)
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To: ColdOne

Or... USS Taxation w/o Representation

(that’s us in CD8 for over a year, thanks to Giffords’ handlers being so greedy)


160 posted on 02/10/2012 5:23:06 PM PST by Borax Queen
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