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.
As the mom of a new sailor (going to his first duty station - a destroyer - in two weeks), I have to agree. Well said, and thank you for your service sailor.
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We could be lucky. This stupid old SOB (Sorry Ms. Lillian, that's just an expression.) will turn 81 on the first of October so he probably only has about four more years of semi-coherent speech before he becomes a drooling ex-peanut farmer.
I imagine when he goes off to his reward the dems will demand equal time and insist he gets as elaborate a funeral as Ronald Reagan got. Good thing I don't watch TV.
Good Luck to your son. I am sure he will do well!
"The Reagans make us feel okay with our prejudices."
-->Roselyn Carter,election year,1984
I'll never forget that vicious comment by the smug Carters.
Three Mile Island was Carter at his best, the US is lucky to have had him making that call. Your post is very well written.
They say the anchor is a reproduction of Carter's front teeth.
I wonder what kind of bonus they are giving the crew to get them to serve on this fiasco?
Well, there's a first time for everything...
It is an appropriate motto for an American warship. The submarine is named after an American submariner who went on to become President of the United States. Something for the crew to be proud of.
About the the achievements of that President in office, the less said the better. But the entire United States of America must bear the onus for than, since they elected him to office, not the crew of one submarine.
It's pretty appropriate, actually, considering how low the country sunk when he was president.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
That's silly nonsense from stem-to-stern. First off, he made no "call": the power plant in question shut down according to by-the-book procedures hours before poor pathetic Jimmy had ever even heard of it.
Second off, the irrational hysteria he helped generate over the "dangers" of nuclear power that arose from that rather minor incident is part and parcel of a complex web of reasons why we're paying through the nose for gasoline--and electricity; and natural gas; and power in general--now.
You simply don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I think Carter is the worst President ever, but your information on TMI is wrong. If you don't know "what the hell you're talking about" ... then don't ....and learn to read about the subject you are writing about....
:^)
To bad Jimmy didn't fall on thine "Holy Hand Grenade".
i really find it tasteless to bash the former president and say things about the navy to be disrespectful. Keep ones snide comments to oneself. Some of us happen to think that boat is one of the best in the fleet. yes, my husband is one there but little remarks like they should sink it can be kept to oneself. grow up, can't you just be proud that their are men, and women out there willing to leave their families to protect your country to give you the freedoms you all need and want? I don't appreciate president bashing or bashing the name of a submarine because your personal dislike of someone/something.
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