Pronouns for everyone!
Run by grinning idiot Lisa Franchetti now....
Our aircraft carriers are judged by beancounters in their green eyeshades as hopelessly vulnerable at the outset of a hot war.
National assets all, the rest of the world
involuntarily trembles, and marvels.
If they silently keep the peace on the world’s oceans and sealanes for decades on end, are they not worth the investment, and the risk?
This Guy will take its seaborne brawler little brother too. For two small.
> the U.S. Navy remains the world’s largest by tonnage <
I’m not quite sure if that’s a meaningful statistic.
It reminds me of the Soviet steel mills in Stalin’s day. Managers were rewarded for increasing production. So they produced things like huge steel nails. These nails upped the tonnage numbers but weren’t very useful in the real world.
So many of them just got dumped in a lot behind the mill.
Alexander Banerjee? Are the Hindoos taking Western names now?
I believe the first United States fighting vessel, the sloop United States, was actually owned and crewed by private citizens. It attacked British and colonial vessels (in one case incorrectly).
Providence November 5, 1776: Whereas Benjamin Pierce Commander of the Sloop United States did on 19th September capture on the high seas and send into the Port of Warren the brigantine Polly, Robert Nelson Master and Owner from North Carolina and whereas it appears that the brigantine was not employed in any illicit trade, but on the contrary, that the said Nelson? intentions can in no way be proved to be inimical to the American States, and that he was bound to Lisbon (with permission from the Provincial Convention of North Carolina)...
USS Bonhomme Richard burns up dockside in San Diego, California.
The "most powerful navy." /sarc
When the Navy was established, the National Guard was already 139 years old, and had fought the first combat of the Revolutionary war at Lexington and Concord.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world