[curmudgeonII]

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?

[henkster]

Which would be a ship of the Nimitz class?

[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?