Media: France To Send Nuclear Aircraft Carrier To Persian Gulf

Trend ^ | February 1, 2012

[stevie_d_64]

Don’t forget the French Foriegn Legion...

Pound for pound the most “tenacious” fighting force in the world...Up and down that chain of command...

(I can feel the SpecOps wannabees, queuing up ready to dispell this analysis...hehehe)

[magslinger]

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[mulder1]

Besides, the army is the only real fighting force.

[lentulusgracchus]

I mean, why not call it the “Jean-Francois Darlan?”

Well, they could have named her after the Comte de Grasse, who defeated the British off Cape Henry or Cape May, and prevented them from raising the siege of Yorktown. But I think that name is pretty consistently taken by other ships in the French OOB.

[lentulusgracchus]

You know a nation does not have a serious naval tradition when they have to name their best ships after guys who served in the ARMY

You mean like the U.S.S. Eisenhower?

And the Teddy Roosevelt, and the Abe ..... he was a Militia captain in the Blackhawk War .....

Guess we'll have to look up where John Stennis and Carl Vinson served their military time. (Might not have, they were pols through-and-through. If Stennis served in an "army" it was probably Boss Vardaman's machine in Miss'sippi.)

Before we turn away from this neo-bad-tradition of naming aircraft carriers for live people and out-of-office ex-POTUS's-and-pols (but I repeat myself ....for emphasis), why is it the 'Rats never got around to naming a carrier after our boy TJ? Is he now non-PC in his own party? And never mind the Declaration of Independence?

[lentulusgracchus]

Actually the Royal navy is the home of surrender in the modern era. The Iranians kicked their ass with a motor launch, in sight of their ship.

Would that be the same Iranians who suffered a giant fire and massive explosion in their favorite cruise-missile production facility a few months later? No telling what happened, of course ..... but somehow I like to think the Special Boat Service had something to do with that.

I think we/they ought to singe Dinnerjacket's shorts every other day, personally.

[JimRed]

...francophobisms...

Fear of France?

[TalonDJ]

But I think that name is pretty consistently taken by other ships in the French OOB.

And by American ships such as DD-974. The vitriol on this thread is revolting.

[af_vet_rr]

Need somebody there in case a surrender is warranted.

Mock the French all you want, but they've been with us in Afghanistan since late 2001.

[Mariner]

This is a formidable force by modern European standards.

If they can get it there.

We and the Japanese are the only countries that have done well with this class.