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To: Non-Sequitur
Had Gore won we would be waiting for the commissioning of the USS Franklin Roosevelt

Sort of surprising there isn't one already. There is a TR, aka "The Big Stick".

Still I think we should go back to naming carriers after famous earlier ships. "Enterprise" goes way back, as does "Constellation", "Lexington", "Saratoga" and "United States" (there was once supposed to be a carrier, the first of a class, by that name but it got canceled. If the name weren't still in use by the original holder, the "USS Constitution" would make a great name for the next class of carriers.

207 posted on 10/03/2006 6:17:47 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

There was a USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was CV-42, and was originally to be called the Coral Sea, but FDR dies shortly before the christening, and the Navy changed the name.

There's a USS Roosevelt now, named after FDR. It's an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, DDG-80, homeported in Mayport.


240 posted on 10/04/2006 4:09:21 AM PDT by fredhead (Women want me....Fish fear me....I can dream can't I?)
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