To: SandRat
USS Reuben James was one of the vessels in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", was it not???
5 posted on
04/24/2006 4:30:50 PM PDT by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!!)
To: Bean Counter
6 posted on
04/24/2006 4:31:24 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Bean Counter; SandRat
I think he also used the name in either the book or the movie adaptation of The Hunt for Red October
7 posted on
04/24/2006 4:33:04 PM PDT by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq)
To: Bean Counter
USS Reuben James was one of the vessels in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", was it not??You are correct. In the novel, a Royal Navy vessel, HMS Battleaxe, asks, "What is a Reuben James?". The reply: "At least we don't name our ships after our mother-in-law."
8 posted on
04/24/2006 4:34:35 PM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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