Posted on 03/25/2013 8:29:13 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Navy’s newest ship will be the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the announcement at a Pentagon ceremony today, calling Giffords someone whose name is synonymous with courage.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords looked on at the Pentagon as Mabus made the announcement in a public ceremony. Also in attendance at this afternoon’s brief ceremony in the Pentagon Courtyard was Roxana Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.
Christina-Taylor was among those killed in last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Tucson that targeted Giffords as she met constituents outside a supermarket. Roxana Green will be the ship’s sponsor.
Giffords is still recovering from the gunshot wounds to her head that she suffered during last January’s shooting incident. She stepped down from Congress two weeks ago.
The ship named today for her, which has yet to be built, will be the Navy’s 10th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a new kind of ship designed to bring the Navy fighting power into shallow coastal areas. The first two ships in this class were called Freedom and Independence, but the conventional practice since then has been to name the other ships in the class after a city.
“It’s very appropriate that LCS 10 be named for someone who has become synonymous with courage, who has inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit,” said Mabus.
Mabus said the notion occurred to him that this would be a “fitting tribute” not only to Giffords but to Navy families because she was a Navy spouse. Her husband, Mark Kelly, was until recently an astronaut and Navy pilot.
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Humans are big about sentimentality and paying homage,, oft times to those who others may question as to their deeds of accomplishments .. but then , O won a Nobel Prize before he ever ascended. Is this OK? depends how sentimental a person one is.. and how much homage you have left to bestow.
nothing like milking the heck out of a bad situation, I reckun. Nasa and Congre$$ and specifically anti-gunners just doing what they do best.. grandstand.
nice poster, btw. ;-]
Is there at least a way we can kill this with Obama’s sequester???
God forgive us.
I’m going to start claiming to be a Coast Guard veteran, not Navy.
/ashamed CTT3
Honestly, at first, I really thought this was a joke...
That’s got my vote!!!
LOL
That is brilliant
oh I;m waiting ro the USS turd poker tobe announced soon the way this countyr is going nad the way most Americans have no problem wiht it
Everytime there is an incident, or crime, ya get the mayor, governor, police chief, and assorted government lackeys, all standing in front of the cameras giving interview after interview, all while praising and thanking each other for doing a spectacular job...
In Ms. Giffords case, she and others unfortunately caught bullets shot by a mental case...So what do those in government do?
They treat her as if she is a hero, who created some historic achievement...Then they name a military warship after her.
So there ya have it!
just how bad is her brain injury? seriously? is she that much in trouble that they are already building a memorial?
oh besides the queers, and women who are supposed to march 40 miles carrying 100 pound and carry a wounded guy at the end of this there are also women who will be in submarines, women coming back pregnant, rapes on men rose with a massive increase last yeat , the same year don;t ask was overturned.
but
we also allow men to dress as women to serve and act as if they were on a freak parade.
Thatis how out of touch the radical left have become, now tens of millions of voters will be told that their county will be ignored over DOMA and states rights over weddings and marriage.
We are living in a far left whack job world and to think we thought we won the communist war back years ago
How was we supposed to know that the communists over in American regrouped and went into the shadows infiltrating Govt, media and the schools.
have you seen the latest recruitment videos and AD’s for the Navy and Mainres.
The marines storm a beach and then it shows them giving out aid, WTH.
They never showed any fighting, no reference to being tough, it;s now a bunch of sissies they;re after to join.
The Navy shows how they are for diversity and open to all.
WTF has gone on.
First Armoured Marine Broadway Musical Batalion.
LOL.
1st marine recon pansy division.
for some reason they always volunteer to bring up the rear from the front?
Maybe she’ll get an even bigger statue on the mall than MLK.
If you want to see my head spinning around, it happens whenever I hear the commercial “a global force for good.”
Nothing like citing the NWO/UN/one-world-govt b.s. right in our faces.
USS You-stupid-peasants-I-will-vote-for-ObamaCare no matter what you all think. Then, I myself will use the world’s finest Cadillac system of care, the kind our truly brave combat vets will never see.
luv,
GG
LOL, good summation.
Makes sense, fedgov thinks the only people in the world they’ll have to fight is their own citizens.
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