Agreed. It was built after a protracted sub-building holiday...its one of our newest and most advanced of fast attack subs. The last Seawolf...in a class of a meager 3.
The name may be disagreeable...but the boat is far more than its name.
Posted on 12/27/2006 7:37:33 AM PST by libtoken
The US Navy has formally announced it currently plans to retire CV 67 Kennedy (plus some other ships) from its active ship registry by 30 Sep 2007. However, this could still change.
http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/B5AA3BD3-C4F0-4FAF-8850-8D26969E1CDB/0/NAV06373.txt
We should also consider decomissioning the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) and selling it to the Israelis.
Ping!
Did you mean "Ex-President" or "Sex-President"?
Looks kind of old in the picture...Rust-bucket comes to mind...
There are about 18 oilers and fast supply ships available. They're all manned by the Sealift Command. And I will guarantee you that refueling at sea is an art that is not being neglected, in fact it's done dozens of times each week all over the globe.
Nam Vet
Rather dumb idea. In the first place it cost upwards of $3 billion. In the second place the Israelis have neither the manpower, the money, or the know-how to operate it.
I hear that China is considering naming one of their ships after Slick.
Oil fired with steam generators.
No man who, in his own words, "loathed" the military should ever have a vessel named after him.
Personally, I think naming our most powerful weapons platforms after people should be reserved for greats like Reagan. In a political world, liberals would put Kennedy up in that pantheon. So be it. Otherwise, traditional names like Saratoga, Lexington and Coral Sea are far more appropriate.
I believe it was announced some time ago that CVN-78 will be named after Gerald Ford. I imagine CVN-80 will be named after Clinton, thus guaranteeing funding for CVN-79 out of a Democrat Congress. I imagine the navy will probably name that one the JFK2.
I spent almost 30 years in and I never heard of it referred to as that. The Forrestal had a reputation for fires, and was sometimes referred to as "Firestal". But the JFK wasn't considered any more of a jinx than any other ship.
What I have a problem with is naming the biggest ships after "whatever congressman gave us the most money."
while the contribution of Stennis and Vinson (Vinson in particular) to the Navy is perhaps worthy of some sort of ship name, the biggest ships we have? I don't think so.
Anyway, I think there's a movement to roll out some of the old CV names for the next few - I think former crew of the USS America have a such a group together.
she's oil fired, that's what I meant to say when I used the term "diesel".
Also, reference, Slick, no man who 'gave aid and comfort' to our enemy during time of war--by protesting against our government overseas during a war--should have a vessel named after him.
Completely lost in the hoopla over the JFK is the fact that the Navy is, once again, decimating the mine sweeping force plus dropping three more fast attack subs and an LHA.
Agreed. It was built after a protracted sub-building holiday...its one of our newest and most advanced of fast attack subs. The last Seawolf...in a class of a meager 3.
The name may be disagreeable...but the boat is far more than its name.
The Navy has ALWAYS given short shrift to mine-sweeping, particularly considering mines are clearly the greatest danger to the USN (the long-term future of minsweeping is small UUVs, however) but I'm surprised people are expressing shock at the Navy not maintaining full 1980s-Height-of-the-Cold-War strength - particularly in submarines.
In the history of humans on this planet, there's NEVER been a larger gap in strength between one Navy and all the rest of the Navies on earth as there is right now - not even the Royal Navy at its height. People are a bit too over-anxious.
The "art" is not. But the logistical capacity...widely deployed for multiple ocean coverage and adverse contingencies... appears to be.
Hence a contributing factor to the USS Cole disaster.
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