[PeterFinn]

The story calls the ship the "Makin Island". They don't refer to it properly as USS Makin Island, but still , it is there.

Speaking of 'there' I was at the Navy Pier in SF in 1986 when the USS Missouri came to call and the protestors (including Dianne Feinstein) were at the fence screaming their typical crap..."Hey hey, ho ho,...blah, blah, blah".

I'm glad the ship won't be in SF. I'd rather see her scrapped than turned into a liberal icon as it absolutely would be in SF.

[DogByte6RER]

Thank you.

I think it is still somewhat confusing in the article. I thought that maybe "Makin Island" was a place somewhere near SF where the commissioning ceremony was tentatively planned. The article should have also identified the class of ship and her hull number.

It's been quite a while since I have been in SF and I do not know the geography there at all.