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To: Tonytitan

I read someplace - probably FR- that the JC is the only ship in the Navy referred to by it’s number rather than a nickname.


13 posted on 01/29/2010 9:07:07 PM PST by alpo
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I wonder how long it will take for CVN-77 George H.W. Bush to be known simply as “the W”.


16 posted on 01/29/2010 9:23:15 PM PST by Tonytitan
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To: alpo
I read someplace - probably FR- that the JC is the only ship in the Navy referred to by it’s number rather than a nickname.

Eh? What's wrong with "Bunny Bait"???

18 posted on 01/29/2010 9:24:47 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 373 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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Am I the only one who thinks that we shouldn’t be naming ships after living people?

A ship name or stamp - you should be dead before you get one.


36 posted on 01/30/2010 10:42:37 AM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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