[cva66snipe]

The problem is that the first CVN21, CVN-78, will come out before the exiting Enterprise is decommissioned. They will not have two carriers called the Enterprise at the same time. I believe the second ship will be the Enterprise and should be. Make the first the Halsy...or better yet, name it the Shanksville!

Jeff it would have been traditionally fitting to have given CVN-78 only one name. The name of the carrier that was sank to gather the data to build that new class of carrier. It should have been USS AMERICA CVN-78. Named for a good ship ran needlessly to a very early end. {Likely with prejudice because of her very name} Several other mothballed carriers could have taken that test as well. The Pentagon was excuse my french hellbent on getting that name off the list.

[Jeff Head]

America would be a GREAT nbame too! United States, several others. Too much politicing going on with this for sure...and you and I both know that when you politicize the military, that it will lead to bad things.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Pentagon was excuse my french hellbent on getting that name [USS America] off the list.

Why was that, do you think? I thought that test was carried out fairly recently, under Bush's incumbency, so there shouldn't have been the ideological prejudice you'd have expected from the Clinton Navy Department appointees.