Posted on 04/12/2016 4:21:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
As the Obama administration this week named another warship after a politician, a new report is circulating in Congress that shows that nearly 200 Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients have never been awarded such an honor, contrary to naval guidelines and tradition.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who has named several ships after Democrats and liberal activists not connected to the military, was in Detroit on Monday to announce that an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be named the USS Carl M. Levin. The Michigan Democrat served 31 years in the Senate and chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2007 to 2015.
The move has rankled some Republicans. They note privately the long list of war heroes yet to be so honored and the Navy’s own tradition of naming destroyers after deceased Medal of Honor recipients and other combat heroes, as well as admirals and generals who played significant roles in naval warfare.
Mr. Levin did not serve in the military.
In a new report privately delivered to lawmakers, the Congressional Research Service did an extensive examination this winter and found that, of 318 Medal of Honor recipients in the Navy and Marine Corps, 100 have had a ship named after them; the large majority of them — 186 — have not.
One congressional staffer noted that Mr. Levin presided over the committee during the Obama administration’s major drawdown of troops and weapons systems. Joint Chiefs of Staff officers testified in recent months that they doubt they can fight one major war on the schedule outlined in the National Military Strategy.
The Levin naming did not conform to Mr. Mabus’ own guidelines set out in a report to Congress in 2012 called “Policies and Practices of the U.S. Navy for Naming the Vessels of the Navy.”
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... Well .... Do they at least have an Albert Gore hot air balloon?
This shit pisses me off. Naming things for relatively worthless people ...
Why do we this for them, as opposed to those folks who gave their lives for us? My son is just one example of the “cannon fodder” that they chew up every day.
US Navy named a ship after Gabby Giffords last year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3299707/posts
Please don’t give them any ideas.
Sick as it is, Joe Stalin got it done.
I couldn’t agree more, my FRiend.
Most politicians don’t even know the definition of sacrifice.
Most in the armed forces live it every day.
God bless.
The Naval tradition of naming ships after great warriors, cities, states, and great battles started going to hell when they began naming carriers after politicians and bureaucrats.
Not surprisingly, the United States began its slide at about the same time.
I would not want to be on the USS Levin in a war in the Middle East against an anti-semitic country like Iran.
I’ll bet you do.
Don’t worry, President Cruz is on the way.
You’d lose that bet...
“Will the USS Carl M. Levin have portholes below the waterline?”
No it will just cost twice as much as the others in its class, never work and stay in service 20 years longer than it should
Just a blast from the past from my boy:
One of the last postings was on a site for a paintball club he had joined. Several of them had or were planning to join the military. The club’s founder (now in the Air National Guard) was preparing to send a field jacket to Karl to keep him warm. The same guy visited one of the guys in our platoon who was wounded and recovering at the hospital in Bethesda.
Nov 13, 2004 - posted by Karl on the Maryland Paint Militia site paintball forum.
Oh yeah, well it’s kinda like this... I was supposed to leave like, 2 or 3 weeks ago, but oddly enough my battallion forgot to buy a plane ride to Iraq.... or anywhere else for that matter (yes, for some odd reason they wanted to put us on a civilian flight with M16A2’s and A4’s in a Tupperware container...brilliant).
We were invited to the ball, but considering the 9 of us from Charlie company were supposed to be in the sandbox months ago with the rest of our boys, we declined. Meanwhile, the guys in Fallujah are kicking ass and taking names, leveling the place with 3-round bursts and AT4’s.... While all we can do is watch CNN and wonder how much more the Marine Corps can ram up our asses.... I mean, what could be a better birthday present than getting turn loose with a crap load of ammunition and an entire town?
There’s still the possiblility that I will get sent by myself to one of C co’s other platoons, since that’s what my paperwork says, but the NCO’s with me now don’t intend to send me on my own to a new platoon that’s been there 3 months already, even if it is a quieter part of the country.
It’s funny, I signed up to be one of the First to Fight, to go to a place like Fallujah... here I am in california where nobody wants anything to do with the 9 of us stragglers, continually getting reamed while my buddies in the guard come and go to the sandbox.
I joined to shoot things and blow them up, not PT 4 or 5 times a week with 3 different companies because nobody really knows why the 9 of us are still here or who we belong to. By the time this whole adventure is over, I’ll have more amazing stories about this place than Iraq; 1st CEB, otherwise known as the Career Ending Batallion.
Anyways, if I EVER make it across the atlantic in time to get a combat action ribbon or something, I’ll be in touch with you guys. Til then, keep me in your prayers, because I don’t think my ass can stretch any wider... it hurts... and they don’t use lube... ow.....
the only recent politician I would consider naming a ship after is Henry Jackson. (SSBN-730)
That is Sal Giunta -
First recipient of the MOH for the war in the ‘ghan.
His unit, the 173rd, 593rd AIRBORNE saw more fighting - over 600 firefights - in “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth”....a tiny little fire-base they literally pickaxed off the top of a mountain in the high Hindu Kush - totally separated from even the FOBS/
Basically, they were used a Judas Goats - to draw the Tallies out - the “point of the spear’ - between the Tallies coming in from Pakistan and the rest of Afghanistan.
This little Platoon is now used in basic training as an example of what real WARRIORS are about.
The have gone down in history - forever, in the annals of warfare.
With many documentaries, front page magazine articles, news stories, books (One by Sal, himself) and movies (not ABOUT them - but them, themselves) both winning many awards, one was up for an Academy Award.
If you can spare a few minutes form important shows like “Dancing With the Stars” and “CSI” etc - you might like to get a glimpse of what the warriors went through - and more than one, after years out of the service, STILL WAITING for their benefits.
the movies:
“Restrepo” -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK2QK6EX7kM
and “Korengal” I’ll take pity on you - and just post a short clip of ONE of the hundreds of firefights they went thru’ - this one for 5 days and nights - the one in which Sal’s action was the reason he was given the MOH -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pn7OZuILL4
(apologies to most of you Freepers, who I know, from experience, don’t have the time for the interruption. I’m guessing not ONE of you will take the time. - Probably irritated by even this. But at least you have the luxury of your freedoms - thanks to Warriors like these. )
From long ago, far away.
“Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for I am the evilest son of a bitch in the valley.”
Thanks, USMCPOP.
It’s plain to see he wanted to be with his fellow Marines kicking ass.
R.I.P., LCpl. Karl Linn!
Semper Fi to the fallen.
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