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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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To: presidio9
but this time it was in a new nuclear vessel bearing his name.

I believe it's "nucular" to Jimmy Carter, as well. But in his case, it's quaint.

61 posted on 08/14/2005 4:04:11 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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To: Darkwolf377

And he still can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly!


62 posted on 08/14/2005 4:04:27 PM PDT by docbnj
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To: ASA Vet
I don't agree. While I admire and support our military, everyone who served is not honorable.

Whatever honor, Jimmy Carter earned, he has more than squandered by his despicable behaviour as predident and since. He has cozied up to Fidel, Chavez and every other communist dictator in the Western Hemisphere and probably many others.

The man is a disgrace and he has brought disgrace to America. I attended the memorial service to the men who died in the abortive rescue mission. At first I thought it was the one thing he did, that I agreed with despite it's outcome. I have since changed my mind.

63 posted on 08/14/2005 4:24:26 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Antoninus II

Most Sailors don't really give much thought to the namesake of their ship. I am sure that there were no race riots on the USS Richard B. Russell, although he was such a segregationist that it cost him a shot at the Presidency. That is not to say that there is not pride in your boat, but it is in what you can do, not what some dead (or not so dead) guy did.


64 posted on 08/14/2005 4:27:31 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPO
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To: presidio9


Here you go.
(SSBN-598) George Washington
(SSBN-599) Patrick Henry
(SSBN-600) Theodore Roosevelt
(SSBN-601) Robert E. Lee
(SSBN-602) Abraham Lincoln
(SSN-603) Pollack
(SSN-604) Haddo
(SSN-605) Jack
(SSN-606) Tinosa
(SSN-607) Dace
(SSBN-608) Ethan Allen
(SSBN-609) Sam Houston
(SSBN-610) Thomas A. Edison
(SSBN-611) John Marshall
(SSN-612) Guardfish
(SSN-613) Flasher
(SSN-614) Greenling
(SSN-615) Gato
(SSBN-616) Lafayette
(SSBN-617) Alexander Hamilton
(SSBN-618) Thomas Jefferson


65 posted on 08/14/2005 4:28:31 PM PDT by MyFreedomIHoldDear
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To: presidio9

Carter was a submarine officer so I'm sure that's why they decided to name it after him. The final decision is made by the Secretary of the Navy and the USS Carter was named back in 1998, so that helps explain it. There are only two other Seawolf class submarines right now and they are the USS Seawolf and the USS Connecticut (they're built at Groton, CT).


66 posted on 08/14/2005 4:31:15 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: SilentServiceCPO
I had no idea we had no idea we were naming a boat for Jimmuh. I guess it's too late to stop that, eh?

Just damn

67 posted on 08/14/2005 4:33:07 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: yarddog
I agree that all vets aren't honorable. Look at the fake the CommiecRATs tried to force on us in 2004
and the simpleton they ran in 2000.

Jimmy was worse than useless as a President. He was dangerous.

However the Sailors on the boat bearing his name are honorable and I give them my heartfelt admiration and thanks.

68 posted on 08/14/2005 4:35:08 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
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To: don-o

Perhaps we can head the next one off at the pass, anyone know of a good garbage scow in need of a name? I'm thinking it might make a great USS Clinton.


69 posted on 08/14/2005 4:38:07 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPO
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To: presidio9

Naming a military vessel after Jimmy Carter is like naming a new car factory after Ralph Nader.


70 posted on 08/14/2005 4:39:05 PM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus)
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To: SilentServiceCPO

(My apologies to the crews of all garbage scows in this, and any other, country)


71 posted on 08/14/2005 4:39:50 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPO
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To: A Jovial Cad
The future USS William Clinton


72 posted on 08/14/2005 4:46:03 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: SilentServiceCPO

Ping. Great minds think alike!


73 posted on 08/14/2005 4:46:55 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: presidio9

We have a sub named "The Appeaser"? I think that's a bad idea.


74 posted on 08/14/2005 4:47:22 PM PDT by sine_nomine (Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
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To: Kozak

LOL!


75 posted on 08/14/2005 4:49:24 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPO
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To: ASA Vet

Instead of "crazy ivans" they'll have to be called "crazy imams".


76 posted on 08/14/2005 4:54:25 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: lunarbicep

Now that's funny !


77 posted on 08/14/2005 4:56:01 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: SilentServiceCPO

OK by me, Chief....but only if used as a target ship.


78 posted on 08/14/2005 4:57:11 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but recently have come to my senses.)
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To: presidio9
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built

Jimmah plans to use it to rescue the hostages, he's going to drive it right up to the embassy. Don't tell him it was a long time ago or that it can't be used on land, it confuses poor old Jimmah.
79 posted on 08/14/2005 5:00:38 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: presidio9
Why, In the Name of God, do they keep rewarding these old fools for dirty deeds, after Glenn played a major hindrance and obstructer in Senate hearing's he gets a joy ride into space, then Carter blasts his own country from abroad and HE gets a submarine named after him.

I don't even dare to think what they have planned for Clinton
80 posted on 08/14/2005 5:02:17 PM PDT by RetSignman
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