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Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
abc ^ | Feb 10, 2012 3:38pm | Luis Martinez

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: giffords; ussjosephstalin; usskarlmarx
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1 posted on 03/25/2013 8:29:13 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Is this appropriate?


2 posted on 03/25/2013 8:29:46 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Well, at least they’re not naming one after her lying husband.


3 posted on 03/25/2013 8:30:02 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Red Steel

Uhm, what?


4 posted on 03/25/2013 8:30:36 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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5 posted on 03/25/2013 8:31:06 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Red Steel

the USS Victim?


6 posted on 03/25/2013 8:32:21 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Travis McGee

YGTBFKM....


7 posted on 03/25/2013 8:32:36 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Red Steel
How PC.


8 posted on 03/25/2013 8:34:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Red Steel

Welcome to “Feel Good” Nation.

I see Mabus got his orders from the White House.


9 posted on 03/25/2013 8:34:54 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Red Steel
Is this appropriate?

If it has half a head...

10 posted on 03/25/2013 8:35:11 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: Red Steel

PLEASE tell me this is satire! Even if you have to lie to me, do it!


11 posted on 03/25/2013 8:36:06 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
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To: Red Steel
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.

Rare as hen's teeth those Navy spouses!

12 posted on 03/25/2013 8:36:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: headstamp 2

Nahhh, Mabus is mentioned by name in the works of Nostradamus...


13 posted on 03/25/2013 8:36:29 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: Red Steel

Will it have guns and ammunition?


14 posted on 03/25/2013 8:36:53 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Red Steel

The newest scow in “America’s Navy’s” Meals On Keels fleet. Political correctness is killing us.


15 posted on 03/25/2013 8:36:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Whatever happened to the land of the free, home of the brave?)
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To: Red Steel

Shameless pandering.


16 posted on 03/25/2013 8:37:13 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Red Steel

Today is Medal of Honor Day. What an insult to actual heroes.


17 posted on 03/25/2013 8:37:29 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Red Steel

What a joke


18 posted on 03/25/2013 8:37:39 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: surroundedbyblue

It’s satire.

(nully with fingers firmly crossed)


19 posted on 03/25/2013 8:37:53 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: Red Steel

Ok, she was shot. Why does that make her brave?


20 posted on 03/25/2013 8:38:35 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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