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So Long to ‘The Big E’(inactivated today)
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| 12-1-2012
| Rick Moran
Posted on 12/01/2012 7:09:10 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: SkyDancer
The practice of naming ships after presidents needs to end. The next flattop should be another Enterprise. Then every carrier after that should rturn to being named after revolutionary war battles.
Enough of the memorials to fat farting potentates that everyone wants to forget anyway.
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:34:38 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: left that other site
What a wonderful experience that must have been! Good for your Dad! :)
To: DesertRhino
Right - the the submarine named after Jimmah Carter? The USS Peanut????
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:38:02 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: smoothsailing
he also took us to The Battleship Massachusetts, a bunch of WW2 Ships in mothballs , and a submarine!
he was SUCH a cool guy!
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:38:55 PM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: DesertRhino
I’m a big fan of WWII Pacific naval battles. Bring back names like “The Bunker Hill”, etc. Although I think the Ben Franklin was a good name for that carrier. But there was the Yorktown too. But politicians as they are will name things after themselves. Wish the Navy had a septic system tanker they could name “The Obama” ....
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:41:07 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Errant
Wow! that picture evoked a memory too! :-)
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:41:58 PM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: SkyDancer
Yep,, and the USS Obama will come before he even leaves office. Reagan deserved it. But it’s time this practice stopped until we have a Saratoga, a Yorkown, a Constitution, and Enterprise, etc.
Our personality cult of the presidency is beginning to suck.
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:46:07 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: DesertRhino
Agree! Make the Reagan the last one only because he brought back the Navy that Carter decimated during his term.
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:47:38 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: DesertRhino; SkyDancer
To: smoothsailing
Oh, how I would love to navigate this big azz from Nofuk to Seeasstle.
Maybe go around the Cape for fun!
To: smoothsailing
A new ENTERPRISE... that is cool
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:52:49 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:53:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
And Franklin getting a carrier was great! And it was 150 years after his era. It was clearly named after him because he deserved it, and not as an honor bestowed to help ensure the ship project never met with a budget cut.
The USS GHW Bush was ordered the week George W Bush was sworn in. Does anyone believe thats a coincidence? And i know he was a pilot. But as a president he was clueless. Would the American people of 150 years hence look back, and think of him the way people in 1941 thought of Franklin? I doubt it.
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:54:17 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: SkyDancer
Build a bigger better Enterprise CV-6b
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:55:54 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
To: DesertRhino
I read about the sea battle where the Franklin was hit over and over again with those Kamakasi planes. Although I’m a bit clueless over naming one carrier the Wasp (it was sunk). What was that all about?
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:56:44 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: DesertRhino
The practice of naming ships after presidents needs to end. The next flattop should be another Enterprise. Then every carrier after that should rturn to being named after revolutionary war battles.
The next three CVNs have been named:
CVN-78 will be the USS Gerald R. Ford.
CVN-79 will be the USS John F. Kennedy.
CVN-80 will be ... the USS ENTERPRISE.
This last per the Secretary of the Navy speaking via video at the inactivation ceremony this afternoon. He said he couldn't stop CVN-65s retirement, but he could ensure that her legacy and the legacy of all previous Enterprises lived on. CVN-80 is slated for commissioning in 2025, to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
To: smoothsailing
Thats good news! Just hope it survives the Obama vendetta and actually gets built.
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:57:48 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Ouderkirk
Hopefully some jerk politician won’t cancel the funds for it. We have to be nice to the world and not be so militaristic. /sarc
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posted on
12/01/2012 7:58:18 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: left that other site
To: smoothsailing
A graphic showing what the future USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 80) is expected to look like when she joins the fleet after 2025.
Hopefully she won't be carrying the first carrier Hornet's service number on her bow. ;-)
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