Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords

abc ^ | Feb 10, 2012 3:38pm | Luis Martinez

[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.

[Monkey Face]

WHAT????

Give the ideators the Deep Six for that abortionistic idea. What a crock.

[newnhdad]

What next USS Massengill?

[Monkey Face]

I was a navy WIfe for 30 years, and never once did I see any indication of cowardice when it came to weapons of any kind. When one is the wife of a Tin Can Sailor, one learns to believe in three things: Guts, guns and God.

Shame on the navy.

[MaxMax]

She is not a national hero, she was a DemocRAT contortionist and might deserve
a plague in her state.

WTF does she have to do with the navy? This is just plain stupid and it's typical
that the RATS are always building monuments to themselves for worship. Disgusting.

[nascarnation]

WTF does she have to do with the navy?

Her husband is the only obvious connection. If she would have married a Marine, they would have named an MRAP after her.

[House Atreides]

Is this appropriate?
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Hell no!! What’s next—the SS Harvey Milk?

[JaguarXKE]

I'm outraged -- outraged, I tell you! that they haven't yet named a ship for Fred Rogers or Michael Jackson. Where's the love?

Haven't you heard of the USS Neighborhood and the USS Billy jean?

[manc]

thanks Pal, much appreciated, I never use FB now but my son asked me if he could use it and I was about to ask you later

[Chode]

i think i'll go and puke now...

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Gifford's is a vile person. I have no sympathy or compassion for her whatsoever. She is using a tragic event to promote tyranny. She is part of those attacking our Bill of Rights, and that's just not acceptable. Many of us will not accept anymore infringement on our second amendment right, and will resist them tooth and nail. There will be innocent Americans murdered resisting this tyranny to some degree, and that blood is on the hands of those pushing this on peaceful patriots.

It's time for acts of civil disobedience in parts of the nation. Peaceful protest of heavily armed patriots, demonstrating open defiance of unconstitutional attempts aimed to disarm us. If we can't even take this risk, we aren't going be able to take the ultimate risk if it goes that far. We need to be proactive instead of just waiting around for them, and we still have plenty of peaceful options available to us. We have to put them in a situation to allow us our freedom, or attempt to violently force their tyranny upon us. Hopefully we can have a peaceful, and victorious outcome, but we have to be willing to take some risk. The stronger, and more united we are the better chance we have for those possibilities.

www.OathKeepers.org

[Gay State Conservative]

Next it'll be the USS Andrea Dworkin

[Gay State Conservative]

Gifford's is a vile person. I have no sympathy or compassion for her whatsoever. She is using a tragic event to promote tyranny.

Just taking the lead from her puppet master.What was it that Axelrod said just after the 2008 election? something like "Osama Obama will never fail to take advantage of a crisis".

Rotten to the core. Utterly amoral. The lot of them.

[SisterK]

Yep. This is an insult to actual heroes.
This article is dated a year ago...

Naming ships after commie godless libtards.

[wastedyears]

No

[wastedyears]

At least Freddie Mercury was a talented singer. Nothing can take that away from him.

[wastedyears]

At least we have the USS Michael Murphy.

[chemicalman]

It’s what happens when you get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Wonder if there’ll be a rainbow on the side?

[ScottinVA]

Next up... USS Che Guevara.

[ScottinVA]

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

And... they're actually expecting us to believe this BS.

[teeman8r]

will it have guns on it...

just wondering

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