[r9etb]

BTW, as the youngest combat pilot in the history of naval aviation, GHW Bush narrowly merits a carrier, but that's it. Ford, Nixon, GW Bush, Carter, and obviously Bill "I loathe the military" Clinton do not.

Ford is credited with leading fire-fighting parties that saved the light carrier USS Monterrey. He served honorably, even heroically, and was thence served as president.

I see no reason to complain about naming a carrier after him.

[presidio9]

Since Reagan was not a veteran, I don't think that is the criterion. Other than serving a couple of replacement years as a lame-duck unelected president, there is little to distinguish Ford from hundreds to thousands of other sailors. Admittedly, he was a very nice man. Name a hospital ship after him.