PETITION: Name the 2nd Ford Class Nuclear Carrier the USS Enterprise

Petition Online - Name the 2nd Ford Class Carrier USS Enterprise ^ | 1 February 2011 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

CLICK HERE TO PETITION TO NAME THE 2ND FORD CLASS CARRIER THE USS ENTERPRISE

CLICK HERE for the Petition to name the next Ford Class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise

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The current USS Enterprise, CVN-65 will be decommissioned when CVN-78, the USS Gerald R. Ford is commissioned into the fleet. This will leave the high seas without a US aircraft carrier named Enterprise. The Big-E has been plowing the waves of the high seas for the last fifty and more years in defense of US National interests, and doing so successfully.

In World War II, the USS Enterprise, a Yorktown Class aircraft carrier, CV-6, was the most highly decorated vessel of the war, and the most highly decorated combat vessel in US Navy history.

It is critical that this proud tradition of service, honor and distinction continue.

Please click the first picture above and sign your name to the petition requesting this...and email, forward, blog, twitter, facebook, and share it with our friends and ask them to do the same.

We need hundreds of thousands of signatures to make this a reality.

CLICK HERE for the Petition to name the next Ford Class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise

The US Naval Institute, the Tailhook Association, and US Navy veterans had an initial petition HERE last year. but it only gained a few thousand signatures and has since been discontinued.

It deserves better and needs more exposure. Let's support our veterans and rise up as citizens and add tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands more so our elected and appointed officilas will respond in the affirmative.

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[Redleg Duke]

Rounds Complete, Over!

[Jeff Head]

Amen. Enterprise has a rich and amazing historical tradition. They are naming the new LHAR (Amphibious Assault Ship) the USS America. I wish a new full deck carrier had gotten that name.

[Jeff Head]

I hope we can put the pressure on. The decision is not slated (as it stands) for 2011. I hope we can get enough signatures and sentiment to get the Enterprise in there.

[mad_as_he$$]

As it should be.

USS Enterprise (1775)
USS Enterprise (1799)
USS Enterprise (1831)
USS Enterprise (1874)
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

[Jeff Head]

Amen!

[Moose4]

A lot of the famous names of the old WWII carriers have been given to amphibious assault ships, while the supercarriers have been getting names of former Presidents.

It wouldn’t completely surprise me to see the DoD attempt to name CVN-79 the USS Barack H. Obama while he’s still in office.

}:-)4

[Jeff Head]

Eighth in the official US Navy...but two served in the continental Navy during the revolutionary war and so there have actually been ten serving the United States.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Essex already exists. It’s the first ship specifically built for a coed crew. Saw it when I was in Japan.

[massgopguy]

I believe there has been a ship with the honor to bear the name Enterprise in the United States Navy since 1775.

[K-Stater]

Done - there has almost always been an Enterprise in the Naval Service. The current Enterprise is the eighth ship to bear the name.

Hardly. There was no USS Enterprise between 1947 and 1961, 1909 and 1938, 1844 and 1847, and so on. While the name Enterprise does carry with it a great tradition as a combat ship in the Navy, so does Saratoga, Lexington, Ranger, Yorktown, and so forth.

I don't particularly care if the next one is named Enterprise or not. I just would like to see them get out of naming them for politicians.

[DesertRhino]

Amen,,,, tired of naming them after politicians. We need to return to naming them after revolutionary war battles. Screw these politicians.

[Jeff Head]

Check my last. You are absolutely correct. It is eight WITH the two from the Continental Navy:

Continental Navy

USS Enterprise (1775) armed sloop (18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain

Enterprise (1776) schooner (20 December 1776 – February 1777), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

United States Navy

USS Enterprise (1799) 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig (17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig. She fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli

USS Enterprise (1831) 10-gun schooner (15 December 1831 – 24 June 1844), the fourth ship to bear this name

USS Enterprise (1874) barque-rigged screw sloop (16 March 1877 – 1 October 1909), the fifth ship to bear this name

USS Enterprise (SP-790) motor yacht (1917–1919), the sixth ship to bear this name, was non-commissioned, serving in the Second Naval District during World War I

USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier (12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947), the seventh ship to bear this name, was the most-decorated U.S. Navy vessel of World War II and of all U.S. history.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Enterprise-class aircraft carrier (25 November 1961 – Present), the eighth ship to bear this name, is a unique design, and the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the world. Currently scheduled to be decommissioned in 2013.

[AndyJackson]

Attack submarines used to be named after marine animals, until we stared naming them after corrupt congressmen. Then we started naming them after cities. We should go back to fish, or better naming them after valorous WWII submarines, which were named after fish. FBMs were named after famous patriots, then we started naming them after states. That is ok, I guess.

[Theophilus]

Amen,,,, tired of naming them after politicians.

I hate that we name them after politicians.

[Jeff Head]

Something like 105 or so years out of the 230.

[KarlInOhio]

The USS Robert C. Byrd - built and based in West Virginia.

Sure there aren't any naval yards there and it would be permanently stationed in the Ohio River, but West Virginia needs the loot.

[K-Stater]

Let's hope not...these vessels sjhould not be politicised.

Too late. Mediocre presidents like Bush and Ford rate aircraft carriers. Hack congressmen like Murtha rate amphibious ships. Senators like Warner get submarines. It's enough to make you throw up some times.

[PfromHoGro]

I thought the Arizona is technically still under flag.

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[Londo Molari]

“Too late. Mediocre presidents like Bush and Ford rate aircraft carriers. Hack congressmen like Murtha rate amphibious ships. Senators like Warner get submarines. It’s enough to make you throw up some times.”

Don’t forget the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23). Yuk!

[Rinnwald]

Name it after a naval-serving president:

USS Richard Milhouse Nixon

Ack, who am I kidding? It’s going to be the Kennedy.