Navy to Commission Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush (ooooo! Bubba's gonna be Torked.)

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[napscoordinator]

I think Reagan has quite enough. He has a carrier that is in California and a building in Washington D.C. and other things I am sure.

[headstamp 2]

“Given enough time, a ship will be named after Bill Clinton.”

Yes a small Zodiac inflatable with a 30 horse Evinrude. Something like a sea going condom to commemorate his time in the White House.

[buccaneer81]

Clinton has a good shot at a carrier with Obama and Dems in office unless Clinton does not want a carrier like carter. I could never understand why Carter turned it down considering he is a Navy Academy Grad and Navy Veteran. Oh well his loss He wanted some kind of humanitarian U.S. Naval Ship or something like that.

No way on Clinton. Impeachment and no military service (not to mention draft dodging) killed it for him. Johnson and Nixon have nothing named, and they were both Naval Officers. They were also disgraced Presidents.

Carter has a Seawolf class attack submarine named after him.

[napscoordinator]

I sincerely hope you are right.

[buccaneer81]

I think Reagan has quite enough.

Too much is never enough when it's Reagan. The country would have been toast (possibly literally) in a second Carter term.

[buccaneer81]

I sincerely hope you are right.

I wish I wasn't about Carter ;-)

[Non-Sequitur]

Oh, my God. The USS Bill Clinton. That is simply hilarious.

Then you're going to flip for the USS Barack Hussein Obama (CV-??).

[napscoordinator]

True and I was not being nasty just glad that he has what he does have. I am so excited when I hear Sailors with proudness that they are part of the Reagan crew. I 100 percent agree with your setiments about the second Carter term. I was in 5th grade when Reagan came to office and even I was glad to see him, so I did not have to sit in my dad’s car waiting for the family to get gas!!!!

[Non-Sequitur]

When did it become common to name USN ships after living anybodies?

Mid-70's. USS Carl Vinson.

[napscoordinator]

Me too. I heard he was not even that great of an officer either, but that could be folklore as I am not sure the source is true or not. Although his actions as President makes me think that the rumors or stories are true.

[Captain Rhino]

President Carter was a nuclear engineering officer and a submariner during his navy service, so wanting an attack sub named after himself was kind of natural. He said as much at the naming ceremony a couple of years ago on C-SPAN.

[Jim Noble]

Terrible mistake.

Capital ships should not be named after politicians, not ever.

[Jim Noble]

Terrible mistake.

Capital ships should not be named after politicians, not ever.

[buccaneer81]

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there were Kremlin documents released that showed that the Politburo was actually considering the invasion of Western Europe if Carter had been re-elected.

The movies,"The Day After" and "Threads" were to me, a plausible look at what a second Carter term might have resulted in.

[buccaneer81]

Capital ships should not be named after politicians, not ever.

Agreed. And to name an entire new class of carriers after Ford is really wrong. Especially since after 2011 there will be no more USS Enterprise in the fleet.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Given enough time, a ship will be named after Bill Clinton.

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Modeled on an ithyphallic hippopotamus.

[exit82]

The sonar dome needs to lean a little to the left.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There’s a submarine christened the “Lewinsky”.

[edge10]

Why would Bubba be mad? He and Bush Sr. are good buds remember?

I’m sure Zero will get a submraine named after him. What is long and black and full of seamen?