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USS Jimmy Carter takes dive with namesake on board (Later resurfaces. No rabbits sighted)
Associated Press ^ | 08/12/05

Posted on 08/14/2005 2:48:09 PM PDT by presidio9

Former President Jimmy Carter today completed his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, but this time it was in a new nuclear vessel bearing his name.

The USS Jimmy Carter pulled into this Navy submarine base after a night of cruising below the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the Georgia coast.

Carter was accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, and a crew of 151. For Mrs. Carter, the boat's sponsor, it was her first submarine dive.

The submarine is the first named after a living ex-president. Carter was a submariner during his time in the Navy after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Carter called it "the finest ship in this Navy or in any Navy."

The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built, and is the last of the Seawolf class of attack subs that the Pentagon ordered during the Cold War's final years. It is 453 feet long, weighs 12,000 tons and carries 50 torpedoes. It cost $3.2 billion.


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1 posted on 08/14/2005 2:48:11 PM PDT by presidio9
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They should have left him down there.


2 posted on 08/14/2005 2:50:30 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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Too bad its likely sub wont fire weapons into Iraq. That would be too sweet for ol Jimmy to see his namesake taking part in the war.


3 posted on 08/14/2005 2:50:42 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: presidio9

So, Rosalyn went down on Jimmy Carter?


4 posted on 08/14/2005 2:50:55 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: presidio9
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built

And the most ironically named.

5 posted on 08/14/2005 2:51:09 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: presidio9
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built

How ironic
6 posted on 08/14/2005 2:51:31 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
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The first submarine that fires lounge chairs in the hopes that any enemy commander will sit and talk about it. And the missles don't detonate when they come in contact with any vessel from a communist country.


7 posted on 08/14/2005 2:52:56 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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I'd be interested to know how many other Seawolf class submarines are named after US Presidents. Or, for that matter, if there are ANY submarines named after Presidents.


8 posted on 08/14/2005 2:52:58 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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Puke alert. Naming a submarine after Jimmy Carter makes me want to retch. I'd be happier if they named a ship USS Benedict Arnold. (Arnold did less damage to national security and the economy.)


9 posted on 08/14/2005 2:53:05 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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Feel sorry for the crew. All those tight circles to the left has to have made them all dizzy.


10 posted on 08/14/2005 2:54:25 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a scandal and a shame that this boat is named after such a nasty, ungrateful, treasonous POS.


11 posted on 08/14/2005 2:54:49 PM PDT by garyhope
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I'm surprised he didn't ask them to name it the Fidel Castro.


12 posted on 08/14/2005 2:54:57 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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I agree, who ever decided to name it after that commie loving disgrace should be tarred and feathered and ridden down Pennsylvania Ave. on a rail.


13 posted on 08/14/2005 2:55:31 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Rodney King

Probably the first and only time.


14 posted on 08/14/2005 2:56:30 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built

Maybe just maybe someday we will get to see the headline:

"Jimmy Carter Nukes Tehran"

Finally.
15 posted on 08/14/2005 2:57:35 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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16 posted on 08/14/2005 2:58:09 PM PDT by scott says (Destination: FURTHER)
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To: conservativebabe; Oztrich Boy; DocRock; Wiggins

ping

17 posted on 08/14/2005 2:58:12 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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An appropriate vessel to bear the name of the worst president in US history.

18 posted on 08/14/2005 2:58:43 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (We are grateful to our fine military. God bless them and their families.)
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I'd be interested to know how many other Seawolf class submarines are named after US Presidents. Or, for that matter, if there are ANY submarines named after Presidents

Not any more, there were quite a few at one time, almost all of the original "boomers" (41 for Freedom), but they are all decommissioned now.

19 posted on 08/14/2005 3:02:11 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPO
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20 posted on 08/14/2005 3:02:11 PM PDT by lunarbicep (Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others - Churchill)
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