Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale
Posted on 01/12/2006 5:02:12 PM PST by Dubya
Named for Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.
The Navy has named ships for live folks.
The USS Ronald Reagan was commissioned a year before his death. The USS George HW Bush has been named, although it is still under construction. (And former President Bush is still alive.)
Yes. That's why I didn't list it as one named for a live person. But the comment to which I replied wasn't specific.
I'd have to double check, but when Adm. Stockdale was met with fair winds and following seas, I believe Sen. McCain said they were.
Yup! Here's a quote from a letter Adm. Stockdale wrote in 1999...
"There was only room for one person at a time in the cage, and after a couple of months I was taken out and marched back to a regular cell. As I limped along, I sneaked a peek at my replacement: John McCain, hobbling along on his own bad leg.".
http://www.miafacts.org/mccain_2.htm
See my follow up post. Yep, I'd forgotten. And of course there's a certain submarine named after Jimmah Catah.
I think this ship is named after McCain Senior, Not junior. Can anyone verifye?
Thank you for the post.
That is the DDG-65. I don't want anyone to be confused.
Never, never, never. Well, maybe in the Cambodian Navy, perhaps.
You know, he caught a lot of flack for that statement from most everybody. In thinking about it, years later, it occurred to me he was likely just asking out loud the questions that he thought folks out in TV land were thinking. They did want to know who he was and why he was there.
There is a USS John McCain (DDG56, Arleigh Bruke class Flight I), however it is named for the Senator's father. Served in WWII (Pacific theatre) as an admiral.
I know that; I was responding another comment.
He was debating in the Greek Scholarly way by asking those questions firstoff. And I believe he was well learned in the Greek classics.
"Yes. That's why I didn't list it as one named for a live person. But the comment to which I replied wasn't specific."
Ok. You get a pass. Feel better?
Served in WWII (Pacific theatre) as an admiral.
That was his grandfather. His father didn't become an Admiral until the 60s.
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. Mike Mullen, presents a photo of the newly announced Arleigh Burk-class guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG 106) to widow of the late Vice Adm. John B. Stockdale.
nice post
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