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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Up Next: The USS “BOO GOT SHOT”..
Likely it will shoot rubber bullets, all the gun tips painted orange
Followed by the USS Hugo Chavez.
FOX spent one half a sentence on the day Rolls was buried and went directly to Gabby’s condition. They spent some time on the little girl that was killed but it was Gabby gabby about all the time. Never heard Gabby thank his family or complement his bravery once. How brave is she-—she had no choice if she wanted to live.
What are they gonna do, shoot a big hole in the bridge, weld a plate over it, and call it functional? Hope they add part b to the hempel or jotun. This kind of decision making makes you question the whole operation.
Will her guns be registered and not have large capacity magazines? Will people who use bad grammar be shot on sight?
search for Roll- or John Roll on FR. Big article on him.
search for Roll- or John Roll on FR. Big article on him.
I heard it was equipped with an especially lethal battery of pit bulls.
“I see Mabus got his orders from the White House.”
Same way SC Roberts got his...
USS Biance , (with extra wide poop deck)
Hey, this is great, screw naval tradition. Let’s start naming ships after American Idol winners....
One wonders if armaments will be allowed on board.
So this will be the first Navy warship in history not allowed to fire a shot?
That’s what we get when we have liberals in charge.
Stupid idea.
Courage? Where does this a$$hole Maybus get the idea that being shot in the back of the head by suprise shows courage?
If the navy wants to reward courage, name the ship after the people that tackled the shooter.
Fire Maybus.
5 people were murdered when this representative was shot.
Sorry, but no person is worth more than another. Being a representative does not make a person more valuable than another.
There should be no ship named after her.
They are doing it because she has become an anti-gun fighter.
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