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. |
Thanks for the ping, Jeff.
Done
Hehehe. LOL!
I will settle for the USS Enterprise for this flat top. We need to an Enterprise plowing the waves IMHO.
Thanks for the encourgaement, thoughts and prayers. The good Lord has been kind to me and mine even in our affliction and I thank Him and my Savior and all those who have prayed for us for it!
Hehehe. LOL!
I will settle for the USS Enterprise for this flat top. We need to an Enterprise plowing the waves IMHO.
Thanks for the encourgaement, thoughts and prayers. The good Lord has been kind to me and mine even in our affliction and I thank Him and my Savior and all those who have prayed for us for it!
Thankn you! Please pass the word. IMHO we’ll need 100,000 signatures if we hope to influence the Secretary of the Navy accordingly.
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I'm getting around more and more without the cane...but it is a long, slow, difficult road. But I am SO blessed to even do what I am doing that it amazes me.
God bless you and yours!
USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 (16 Jul 1934-17 Feb 1947) |
USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 (25 Nov 1961-2013 (est)) |
USS ENTERPRISE CVN-79 (2018 (est)-2068 (est)) |
Will do, Jeff. My grandfather worked on the construction of CV-4 before being shipped down to Wilmington during the war to build Liberty ships. My dad worked on CVN-65 and was on the sea trials of the ‘Big E’. I remember him telling me as much as he could about how fast she is...still the fastest carrier in the fleet.
Continuing prayers and all the best to you.
Oops...CV-6.
Those ships and those who served on them and built them gave our country SO much. We need to continue the rich heitage and tradition.
Howdy, Jeff. Great project. Proud to take part in naming the new Enterprise.
Thanks for the ping!
Done!
>> “I’m tired of naming ships (and federal buildings, and airports, and national parks) after people who live high off the hog, on the government dole with dozens of staffers and then go on to enjoy a guaranteed pension. Where’s the “sacrifice” in that so-called public service?” <<
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Agree!
A good effort was made to try and obtain naming CVN 78 AMERICA but politics namely John Warner IIRC used pull to get it named FORD. AMERICA was sank to obtain the data for the Ford. I wish the Navy would stop naming them after POTUS as well. ENTERPRISE sounds great or any other non politicans namesake on this list as well. Naming though has become far too political and veterans get little say these days.
Thi will be the US Marine Air Variant assault vessel, that will have no well deck and function as an air assault vessel, or Sea Cntrol carrier.
I am hoping we are successful with this one. Enterprise needs to be a carrier, and she needs to be the next Ford class carrier.
Here's a site for the USS America, LHAR-6
She's coming laong nicely:
Thank you for signing my friend. Please pass the word!
Thanks for the pictures. Looking at the second picture can anyone tell me if that is a sonar dome in the bow? If so it’s ironic. AMERICA CV 66 was the only super carrier built with one. It was disconnected either in the 80 overhaul or the next one I was told by the guy who did it.
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