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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Easy. It will be put on your great-grandchildren's credit card. /s
She got shot in the head, miraculously survived and is doing a lot better.
That’s not courageousness. It’s fortitude. Using the word courage implies heroism. She’s not a hero. If she had gotten shot while trying to protect someone else THAT would have been courageous and heroic.
“...calling Giffords someone whose name is synonymous with courage. ...”
“synonymous with courage”???
Really? How so?
What a slap to the military men and women who have given their lives for freedom. It’s unfortunate and sad that this woman was shot. Let’s face it before the shooting she was nothing more than a political hack feasting at the public trough to promote her liberal/socialist ideals.
Rolling my eyes.
The ship should be called the USS Armed Services then. Last time I checked Al Retards had a standing death threat out against all uniformed US personnel.
OMG!!!! How RIDICULOUS!!!
what ship names next
Mao
Lenin
Stalin
Marx
Che Guer
Toilet
Turd
These are Obama’s heroes and what he has done to the country
It better not have any guns.
No. At the very least, I wish they didn’t name things after living people. It is bad form.
I honestly thought this was an Onion article and thought: My, they have gone too far.
So a leftist shoots a congressman and the congressman gets a Ship?
Somehow I dont see this as heroic.
Anyone want to work with me to sponsor a bill called: NO PUBLIC WORKS OR BUILDINGS OR SHIPS TO BE NAMED AFER ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEEN DEAD FOR 50 YEARS????
In this Brave New World, it does.
I’d rather see the USS Chris Kyle.
??
Insane.
It’s like the Soviet Union has been reborn
It must have a docking port in the stern . . .
Ooh, just PUKE!
Manus is an effing tool......
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