Posted on 03/25/2013 8:29:13 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Navy’s newest ship will be the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the announcement at a Pentagon ceremony today, calling Giffords someone whose name is synonymous with courage.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords looked on at the Pentagon as Mabus made the announcement in a public ceremony. Also in attendance at this afternoon’s brief ceremony in the Pentagon Courtyard was Roxana Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.
Christina-Taylor was among those killed in last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Tucson that targeted Giffords as she met constituents outside a supermarket. Roxana Green will be the ship’s sponsor.
Giffords is still recovering from the gunshot wounds to her head that she suffered during last January’s shooting incident. She stepped down from Congress two weeks ago.
The ship named today for her, which has yet to be built, will be the Navy’s 10th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a new kind of ship designed to bring the Navy fighting power into shallow coastal areas. The first two ships in this class were called Freedom and Independence, but the conventional practice since then has been to name the other ships in the class after a city.
“It’s very appropriate that LCS 10 be named for someone who has become synonymous with courage, who has inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit,” said Mabus.
Mabus said the notion occurred to him that this would be a “fitting tribute” not only to Giffords but to Navy families because she was a Navy spouse. Her husband, Mark Kelly, was until recently an astronaut and Navy pilot.
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No, please don’t give them any ideas ;o)
Projectile Vomit.
This is silly
Like Napolitano renaming Squaw mountain
Will the entire ship be a gun-free zone? I wouldn’t want her and her husband’s name to be associated with things they find offensive after all.
This gonna be a garbage barge that just floats around and stinks till someone tows it away or gets deep sixed for sympathy votes ?
Total cow crap .... Polidiots are gun decking shitbirds !
She was brave because - having received prior death threats - she still refused offers of armed security from the Pima Country Sheriff and Tucson PD on the day she was shot - and 6 others killed - in front of a Walgreens.
Oh wait, I guess that would be "stupid".
Never mind.
If she and her husband had ANY class, they would turn this down publicly.
Of course, it is highly likely that media-whore Kelly was behind this and convinced her it was a great idea.
Obama's kids are going to need three and a half more years of vacations, and they will cost just about what your ship would have cost. Sorry!
There was a federal judge there that day who actually got shot anhd killed by the freak.
We used to have classes of ships in the US Navy , such as the “Ticonderoga” class
Now we have the “Bleeding Heart Class” of littoral combat ships. Soon the US Armed forces will be like the Spanish and Italians, fit only to wave the white flag and retreat, while avoiding sexual harassment from enlisted gays.Obama thinks the USA is a Colonial power, and will bring world war III to us by standing down the USA as a world peace keeper.This is our Brave New World.....full of fascist cowards like Obama and his running dogs.
Good Read:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
I assume the ship’s magazine won’t hold more than 10 rounds of anything.
Notice how the judge WHO WAS KILLED when Giffords was shot and survived is all but forgotten? BTW, he was a Republican, not that that matters!
Considering my second amendment rights I presume it will be a Destroyer.
I feel exactly the same way, Billthedrill. Exactly.
I hear that it only has half a bridge and a hole in the stern.
That was EXACTLY the first reaction I had to this stupid move.
I don’t think this is a good idea. In what universe except the liberal one is she an f’n hero? This country gets nuttier and nuttier and I get sicker and sicker of it.
I wouldn’t want to serve on this ship. It’s likely highly prone to being ambushed.
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