Posted on 07/28/2012 7:24:10 PM PDT by moonshot925
AVONDALE, La. — The USS Somerset — the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites — was christened Saturday in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed before terrorists could reach their intended target.
Passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 stormed the cockpit and thwarted an attack on Washington, but the plane crashed in Somerset County, Pa., killing all 40 passengers and crew members.
“The men and women of Flight 93 ... thought they were going to San Francisco to work, to play, to learn; to live their lives in peace while others guarded them,” said Navy Rear Adm. David Lewis. “Instead they found themselves in a war, on the front lines, in the opening battle. It was a new kind of war, one with new rules, maybe no rules at all. They had no preparation, no training, no guidance.
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Makes more sense than the USS Hugo Chavez.
“Instead they found themselves in a war,.....They had no preparation, no training, no guidance.”
It wasn’t their job.
The truest heroes of the atrocity in the purest sense of the word.
Makes more sense than the USS Hugo Chavez.
Good looking ship.
Too bad there’s one named after Murtha.
Cool.
The Somerset is one of three amphibious landing docks named after the sites where planes taken over by terrorists crashed, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Its bow stem — the first part of the ship to push through the water — was made from 7.5 tons of steel melted down from the bucket of a huge coal-mining crane that stood near the crash site. It was there that miners hung a large American flag to serve as a landmark and to honor the dead.
I thought they were going to call it the
USS Shanksville for the town nearby.
Oh well.
Is the ship armed in any way? I can’t see anything which obviously is a gun or even missile launcher.
My only complaint is she needs some guns.
“Let’s ROLL”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see a missile launcher on the bow.
Armament: Two 30 mm Bushmaster II cannons, for surface threat defense;
two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense
This is wonderful news!
Sadly, however, this class of ship will always bear the ignoble distinction of having one it’s own named after the excretable John Murtha.
It has two 21-cell Rolling Airframe Missile launchers and two Mk44 Bushmaster II cannons.
The dome under the flag must be a bushmaster canon.
Thanks for that.
I noticed a box in the front or bow but wasn’t sure what was in it.
It seems at the very least there should be one of those small caliber rapid firing cannons in front. Also 50 caliber machine guns at the four corners of the superstructure.
I could just see Iranian power boats approaching and the only thing they have is missiles intended to sink large ships.
Ok, I just can’t see the cannons.
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