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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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posted on
08/14/2005 2:48:11 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
They should have left him down there.
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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)
To: presidio9
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.
To: presidio9
So, Rosalyn went down on Jimmy Carter?
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:50:55 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: presidio9
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever builtAnd the most ironically named.
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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)
To: presidio9
The USS Jimmy Carter is the most heavily armed submarine ever built
How ironic
To: presidio9
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.
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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)
To: Darkwolf377
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.
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:52:58 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam Is As Islam Does)
To: presidio9
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.)
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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)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Feel sorry for the crew. All those tight circles to the left has to have made them all dizzy.
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:54:25 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
To: presidio9
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.
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:54:49 PM PDT
by
garyhope
To: presidio9
I'm surprised he didn't ask them to name it the Fidel Castro.
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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)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:55:31 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Rodney King
Probably the first and only time.
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:56:30 PM PDT
by
garyhope
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.
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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")
To: presidio9
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:58:09 PM PDT
by
scott says
(Destination: FURTHER)
To: conservativebabe; Oztrich Boy; DocRock; Wiggins
ping
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posted on
08/14/2005 2:58:12 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam Is As Islam Does)
To: presidio9
An appropriate vessel to bear the name of the worst president in US history.
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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.)
To: presidio9
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.
To: presidio9
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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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