Posted on 02/15/2012 8:47:49 AM PST by servo1969
Retired Rear Admiral George Worthington, former commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, told The Daily Caller that there are many people more worthy of a ship bearing their name.
“Here is the issue. There are a lot of dead Marines out there whose names could go on anything that appears to be an amphibious ship,” he said, explaining that a past recipient of the Medal of Honor, Dakota Meyer, might be a good candidate.
Worthington added his email “inbox” has been filled with messages from military friends who are “shocked and angered” by the decision.
“We think fallen Marines and perhaps supporting sailors should go on fantails before random victims,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
USS Hopper (DDG-70), 1996. Built and commissioned at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is named for RDML Grace Murray Hopper, a computer technology pioneer who led the Navy into the digital age.
That's it - ONE. UNO. The only.
Hopper was, among other accomplishments, the builder of the first "compiler" (a program to translate a higher-level language to binary machine-code, immensely simplifying the task of programming) and the "mother" of the COBOL computer language (based primarily on the FLOW-MATIC language developed under her direction). COBOL is still widely used in business applications (and, I would guess, still used by the Navy is certain areas like logistics and personnel).
While it is wrong to attribute COBOL solely to Hopper, she had an enormous influence on it (since FLOW-MATIC was, essentially, the only WORKING computer language that formed a basis for COBOL.) And the creation of COBOL is one of the landmarks of technology in the 20th century.
To Hopper we now add: USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) Littoral Combat Ship named for Retired Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Giffords is, in many ways, an admirable woman. Grace Hopper is one of the TITANS in the history of the Navy. There is simply no comparison.
I’ll tell you what, Boxcar Willie has more of a claim to having a ship named after him than Gabby Giffords. He was a retired Air Force pilot who was a Korean War veteran. He at least has done enough (in my book) to have an overpass named after him.
Kennedy cut taxes ~ Hoorah!.
Bush said "Read my hips" and raised taxes ~ Booh!
Certainly none of that is heroic work ~ but it is definitely getting harder and harder to find a Congress-critter anywhere but behind a locked door, or in hollering distance of the guards. I know my Congress-critter Rep. Cannoli has had peaceful, well meaning, kind and delightful visiting constituents ARRESTED!!!! And in the US Capitol Building.
I'd like to encourage better behavior by the members of Congress, particularly the Democrats.
We shouldn't need two shootings to get their attention I hope!
CC
I think both would have as much luck as the TITANIC.
"The Love boat"
"The Cohiba"
"The Battlin' Lewinsky" ,though that last one might begin a few brawls in home post.
We have become idiotic enough to name the next warship the “Whitney Houston”.
He wasn't as heroic as my uncle in WWII ~ who was a Ranger, on the ground ~ at Oran, at Anzio, at various other places.
So much for Bush.
Your uncle wasn’t the President of the United States, unpopular or not. Let me know when Giffords serves in the military and becomes president of the US.
Apparently it was a Democrat engineered assassination attempt on a Republican judge, but she got hit too.
They would say "She was expendable", just like in the John Ford film about Squadron 3.
Frankly, all I ask is that I don't get hurt so bad anybody feels the need to name something after me. My days of saving lives are probably long gone now so nothing heroic. But seriously, you just never see these Congress-critters out in public like that ~ probably because the risk of getting shot is just too high ~ but there you have it.
He’ll have wind farms named after him.
Correction: Her Husband is a retired Naval Officer!!
Coming soon. The Barny Frank Tunnel
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100th anniversary of Marine Corps aviation this year. You were the first A.A. Happy Birthday!
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