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Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
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| Feb 10, 2012 3:38pm
| Luis Martinez
Posted on 03/25/2013 8:29:13 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Navys newest ship will be the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the announcement at a Pentagon ceremony today, calling Giffords someone whose name is synonymous with courage.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords looked on at the Pentagon as Mabus made the announcement in a public ceremony. Also in attendance at this afternoons brief ceremony in the Pentagon Courtyard was Roxana Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.
Christina-Taylor was among those killed in last years deadly shooting rampage in Tucson that targeted Giffords as she met constituents outside a supermarket. Roxana Green will be the ships sponsor.
Giffords is still recovering from the gunshot wounds to her head that she suffered during last Januarys shooting incident. She stepped down from Congress two weeks ago.
The ship named today for her, which has yet to be built, will be the Navys 10th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a new kind of ship designed to bring the Navy fighting power into shallow coastal areas. The first two ships in this class were called Freedom and Independence, but the conventional practice since then has been to name the other ships in the class after a city.
Its very appropriate that LCS 10 be named for someone who has become synonymous with courage, who has inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit, said Mabus.
Mabus said the notion occurred to him that this would be a fitting tribute not only to Giffords but to Navy families because she was a Navy spouse. Her husband, Mark Kelly, was until recently an astronaut and Navy pilot.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: giffords; ussjosephstalin; usskarlmarx
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:29:13 PM PDT
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Red Steel
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:29:46 PM PDT
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Red Steel
To: Red Steel
Well, at least they’re not naming one after her lying husband.
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:30:02 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:30:36 PM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:31:06 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:32:21 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:32:36 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Red Steel
How PC.
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:34:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Red Steel
Welcome to “Feel Good” Nation.
I see Mabus got his orders from the White House.
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:34:54 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Red Steel
Is this appropriate? If it has half a head...
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:35:11 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: Red Steel
PLEASE tell me this is satire! Even if you have to lie to me, do it!
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:36:06 PM PDT
by
surroundedbyblue
(Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
To: Red Steel
Mabus said the notion occurred to him that this would be a fitting tribute not only to Giffords but to Navy families because she was a Navy spouse.Rare as hen's teeth those Navy spouses!
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:36:20 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
To: headstamp 2
Nahhh, Mabus is mentioned by name in the works of Nostradamus...
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:36:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: Red Steel
Will it have guns and ammunition?
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:36:53 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: Red Steel
The newest scow in “America’s Navy’s” Meals On Keels fleet. Political correctness is killing us.
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:36:57 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Whatever happened to the land of the free, home of the brave?)
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:37:13 PM PDT
by
Shadow44
To: Red Steel
Today is Medal of Honor Day. What an insult to actual heroes.
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:37:29 PM PDT
by
HokieMom
(Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
To: Red Steel
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:37:39 PM PDT
by
1217Chic
To: surroundedbyblue
It’s satire.
(nully with fingers firmly crossed)
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:37:53 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
To: Red Steel
Ok, she was shot. Why does that make her brave?
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posted on
03/25/2013 8:38:35 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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