Posted on 02/01/2011 6:35:44 AM PST by Jeff Head
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. |
While I do believe that the name Enterprise should remain in use; I wish that we would be more creative with our ship names.
I mean the Brits have always had such cool names such as: Aggressor, Antagonist, Crusader, Daunltess, Devastation, Fearless, Indefatigable, Indomitable, Intrepid, Invincible, etc.
I would like to see a ship named USS Capitalism, or ones named for US mythology like Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, John Henry, Pecos Pete etc.
Lets not for get that great starship ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701)
Hehehe...that one is still out there a ways. CVN-79 can be a bridge towards that end.
It is a good time to abandon the distatsteful practice of naming capital ships after modern era poiticians. The practice started in 1945 with the naming of CVB-42 after FDR.
The tradition of naming ships after Founding Fathers or long dead presidents is a far different policy than naming them after politicians still living or recently deceased.
Enterprise is a great choice for this carrier for the many reasons already stated.
Why does everything in our world have to be politicized?
There is a long tradition (now abandoned) of giving cariers non-political names, such as notable battles and historical events or endeavors. I would like to see a return to that tradition.
Wait until someone gets the idea of nameing it the USS Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm sick already.
I heard scuttlebutt decades ago, that the family was approached during the Carter administration about naming a ship after King. And, again from what I heard, they balked because they didn't think a weapon of war should be named after a "man of peace".
No idea if it actually happened, but it was a popularly repeated story at the time.
However, there was a cargo/ammunition ship (T-AKE), named after Medgar Evers(sp?) last year, or in 2009. I don't believe it has yet come into service, although it may have, by now.
Hope you are feeling better.
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In WWII the Japanese had cadres of "Comfort Women" to attend to the sexual desires of their officers and troops.
To "staff" their far flung operations they carried these women around by ship and boat.
A modern day version of a comfort woman ship would be an appropriate vessel to christen the "Clinton".
Ol' Bill himself would probably even volunteer to serve aboard.
Signed.
The USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is part of the Seventh Fleet, and she has her homeport at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. This warship is named after John S. McCain, Jr., and John S. McCain, Sr., both Admirals in the United States Navy.
Amen to every bit of that. We need to spread this around to send that exact message to the Secretary of the Navy with over 100,000 signatures strong...but its going to take a lot of work.
the good Lord has worked a miracle with me and I am walking more and more now without my cane...though it is a hard, long road.
I have been very blessed despite the hardship and am committed to witnessing Christ, Jesus' name as a result, because of the help, comfort, and rest He has given me through faith on His name through this entire ordeal. Comfort and peace beyond my ability to express.
Terrible precedent.
FYI...please consider singing this and spreading it around to others and asking them to do the same.
Oops...hehehe...you can sing it if you want too, but what I meant was to consider signing it. LOL!
The USS Robert E. Lee, or the John Paul Jones?
Or, the USS Jefferson Davis? I know that will piss off all the Yankees (yes, I capitalized the "Y" this time).
How about the USS Mike Kehoe? I like that one.
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