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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[wbill]

Good idea, but I think that a Destroyer is more appropriate for Adm. "31-knot" Burke, anyway. :-)

Is the USS Arleigh Burke still commissioned?

[paddles]

How about “USS Barry Dunham Soetoro Dunham Soebarkha Dunham Stanley Hussein Dunham Obama?”

[Jeff Head]

I don't believe she is commissioned. She is a memorial and I believe the US Park Service has charge over her. The USS Arizona and Goldwater have been names put forth so far for CVN-79 I believe.

I just want to see the Enterprise name continued.

The World War II vessel, CV-6, was one that should have been memorialized if ever one was. For a time she stood alone as a carrier against the Japanese in the darkest days of World War II. But, that Enterprise, the most decorated vessel in US Navy history, was scrapped after the war.

[Jeff Head]

DDG-51, USS Arleigh Burke is the lead destroyer of the Burke Class AEGIS destroyers. We have built 62 of them and all of them are in service. Largets production run of destroyers in history.

Burke Class Destroyers - Flight I (28 Built)

Burke Class Destroyers - Flight IIA (34 built so far)

[K-Stater]

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

It goes back further than that. Carl Vinson got a carrier. Scoop Jackson got a ballistic missile sub. Russell and Rivers got SSNs. The Navy isn't stupid. It knows that one of the best ways to get funding is to play on the egos of politicians. In many ways it's better to get a commissioned submarine named after Jimmy Carter than a canceled submarine named after a fish.

[Cheburashka]

Largets(sic) production run of destroyers in history.

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Jeff. Love ya, love your efforts to inform FReepers about the U.S. Navy and its possible future adversaries.

But you're wrong in this case. The Wickes and Clemson classes from World War I each had over 100 ships. Not to mention the Fletcher class of World War II.

[mountainlion]

Is the USS Arleigh Burke still commissioned?

The USS Arleigh Burke is still going strong. Arleigh Burke must be the best thing that came out of the “Republic of Boulder” His grandfather used the first brick made in Colorado to make an oven to bake bread in Denver.

[K-Stater]

We have built 62 of them and all of them are in service. Largets production run of destroyers in history.

That's incorrect. The Fletcher class had a run of over 170 hulls.

[Celtic Conservative]

They can't name it Arizona , the original is still technically commissioned.

CC

[Atlas Sneezed]

Seems to me that USS Arizona should be retired out of respect.

[bt579]

USS Nancy Pelousi /s

[Jeff Head]

I stand corrected. The Fletcher class was 175 vessels for the US Navy and 52 vessels for other navies...a total of 227 I believe and that is something I should not have overlooked.

I'll amend it by saying that the Burkes are probably the largest modern run of destoryers including the cold war, and believe that is a correct statement.

Thanks for pointing it out and correcting me.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks, in post 42 Cheburashka corrected me and I stand corrected.

See my poost 52. 175 US vessels and 52 for other nations. 227 altogether I believe for the Fletchers.

And amazing vessels. MY Dad served proudly in WWII as a combat officer and spoke to me many times of those tin cans and it is something I should not have neglected to look up before making my earlier statement.

The Burkes are the largest modern run including the cold war, but clearly, by far not the largest run.

Thanbks for the correction.

[Jeff Head]

Ugh...that would be sickening IMHO.

[FreeAtlanta]

It is a practice that should be ditched in favor of more practical solutions. Libraries were needed before the time of the Nook and Kindle, and I still love my paper books, but fewer and fewer people are using hard copy libraries, so it could be time to save the dough and just put everything online.

[K-Stater]

175 US vessels and 52 for other nations. 227 altogether I believe for the Fletchers.

Almost right. 175 hulls for the Fletchers, of which 52 were later sold to foreign navies after their U.S. service was over. None were built for foreign countries. After the war we had over a hundred Gearing's and Sumner's and the smaller Fletcher class became redundant. They were sold off in whole lots.

[ssaftler]

And amazing vessels. MY Dad served proudly in WWII as a combat officer and spoke to me many times of those tin cans and it is something I should not have neglected to look up before making my earlier statement.

Jeff, my Dad also served on a Fletcher Class tin can (F/2C on the James J. Badger, DD-657). Though he never spoke much about it when he was alive, I've since found that they were part of the Kurile Islands and Leyte Gulf campaigns. Very dangerous stuff, that was. I can understand why he didn't want to relive those days...

Thanks for bring the petition to our attention, very happy to sign it!

[Ronald_Magnus]

Heck, we named a sub after that peacenik Jimmy Carter, soooooo.....

[Jeff Head]

Amazing vessels just the same. My Dad was a Lt and commanded an LCI in WW II, working with the MacArthur group. He spoke highly fo the Fletchers...very highly.

The large cold war classes were the Charles Adams and Spruance classes.

The Burkes are a very strong design, particularly with some of the innovations of the Flight IIA vessels.

Have you seen the very large Burke derivitive the South Koreans are building? (The KDX-III or Sejongdaewang Class) Over 10,000 tons...more like a Burke cruiser and very heavily armed.

They recently finnished their 2nd in class and are building a third with a potential for three more.

I believe such a design could be used as a bridge to get us to the CGX and DDX one day when they can be built in numbers, particularly once we start retiring the Ticos.

I actually put together a proposal for one:

Enhanced Burke design as bridge to CGX

[Jeff Head]

You are welcome...and thanks for signing. Please pass it around and ask others to do likewise.

My Dad was a LT and commanded and LCI in WWII. He was supported by Fletchers and spoke highly of them.

He passed in 2004 and we miss him, but know he is in a far better place now with many loved ones and that we will be reunited with him one day through the resurrection of Christ our Lord.