I just had a horrid thought! One day there will be a ‘USS Obama.’ Ugggh!
I hope not. There aren’t many warships named after presidents that did not serve either in the military or as Commander-in-Chief during a war. Reagan of course built up the US Navy after a dangerous decline and restored its confidence.
I think the best one is that we named a submarine after a war time president that asked Congress to declare war on Germany because of unrestricted submarine warfare.
Aircraft Carriers
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)
PCU Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
Submarines
USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619)
USS James Monroe (SSBN-622)
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624)
USS James Madison (SSBN-627)
USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631)
USS James K. Polk (SSBN-645)
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)
There was also a frigate USS Van Buren (PF-42), but that was named after the town in Arkansas.