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Michelle Obama sponsors first-ever ALL-FEMALE nuclear submarine
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | May 28, 2012 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 06/03/2014 8:51:52 AM PDT by QT3.14

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To: QT3.14

oh no, why didn’t they have a name contest and charge people to enter, they could have paid for the dang sub

“the USS Let’s MOOOOVE”

“the USS-Baby-Got-Back”

” the USS Whatchulookinat”

“the USS Hot Flash”


101 posted on 06/03/2014 10:23:47 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL!


102 posted on 06/03/2014 10:26:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: QT3.14

Sponsor this sub? Does that mean she is funding it from her own pocket?


103 posted on 06/03/2014 10:28:12 AM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: QT3.14

More divisive crap from the divider in chief. Now can we look forward the first all homo crew, the first all black crew, etc....”


104 posted on 06/03/2014 10:29:59 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: I cannot think of a name
That's going to get pretty expensive. They'll have to create two classes of this particular sub. One that fires torpedoes and one that catches torpedoes.

They will save money on construction because the USS Barack will only have aft tubes.

105 posted on 06/03/2014 10:39:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
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To: silverleaf
“the USS Hot Flash”

OK, that one got to me. That is the funniest and most appropriate name!

106 posted on 06/03/2014 10:46:59 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: QT3.14

It will be interesting to see if they can pass the Damage Control Requirements required for all crewmen for submarine duty.

I bet they waive them as being to ‘gender’ specific as regards to upper body strength.


107 posted on 06/03/2014 10:55:10 AM PDT by The Working Man
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Several of you asked what it means to sponsor the sub.

Michelle Obama, the ship sponsor, will provide remarks and authenticate the keel by chalking her initials onto a metal plate. Her initials will then be welded to the plate, which will be permanently affixed to the submarine.

Here

Instead of initials, how about using the chalk to outline her.....never mind.

108 posted on 06/03/2014 10:59:16 AM PDT by QT3.14 (Don Surber: American people have had it with the House of Clinton. She an Old Hag; he a Limp Corndog)
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To: The Working Man

I just looked up where we are on women and subs and found out that the most sub experience any of the crew will have is 18 months.

Would any of you submariners go near it?


109 posted on 06/03/2014 1:15:36 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: QT3.14
chalking her initials onto a metal plate. Her initials will then be welded to the plate, which will be permanently affixed to the submarine.

Everything the Obamas touch turns to shit. Pray that this boat doesn't pull a Thresher.

110 posted on 06/03/2014 2:29:39 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: MrB
So, what would be the female equivalent of a “Crazy Ivan”?

SOP

111 posted on 06/03/2014 3:44:33 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Fear The People

Do you really think that we need this here??

THUMBS DOWN ON LOW CLASS.


113 posted on 06/03/2014 3:55:03 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: QT3.14; FreedomPoster
The USS Illinois, SSN-786, is under construction.

But this is BS about an all female crew.

An initial pre-commissioning crew began forming in June 2013. They are not all female.

The Keel laying just occurred and Michelle Obama is the sponsor...but the crew which is already working with the builder is not all female.

Here is the link to the Bio of the prospective pre-commissioning skipper of the boat, Commander Jess Parker.

Commander Jess Parker Bio

The crew that will man the vessel after launch will definitely not be all female.

114 posted on 06/03/2014 9:13:19 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head

Thanks. Maybe the UK reporter assumed all the female sailors in the photo at the WH equaled all-female crew.


115 posted on 06/03/2014 9:16:00 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Don Surber: American people have had it with the House of Clinton. She an Old Hag; he a Limp Corndog)
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To: wally_bert

LOL! Good luck!


116 posted on 06/04/2014 2:07:19 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: silverleaf

So in all fairness, I wonder what the ladies of this site would name an all-male sub in this new age? Suggestions ladies? :-)


117 posted on 06/04/2014 2:51:24 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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pick a name, any name, because right now all of them that were named before 2012 were all-male subs

how about the “USS size-matters”


118 posted on 06/04/2014 2:56:20 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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