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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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To: Red Steel

I love the Onion.


41 posted on 03/25/2013 8:44:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 43north
I heard that the next aircraft carrier will be named the U.S.S. Trayvon Martin...

The first "Skittles & Tea" powered vessel!

42 posted on 03/25/2013 8:44:20 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: Red Steel

Garbage scow?


43 posted on 03/25/2013 8:44:22 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Red Steel

This is just as innapropriate and patently offensive as the USS Trayvon Martin, or USS Homosexual Marriage. I don’t even recognise this country anymore. As Taylor said in planet of the apes, it’s a madhouse... a madhouse.


44 posted on 03/25/2013 8:45:24 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 43north

Don’t give them any ideas.


45 posted on 03/25/2013 8:46:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Red Steel

How can we afford to buy a new ship? With the sequester and all?


46 posted on 03/25/2013 8:46:19 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Red Steel

You’re got to be kidding. It’s like we’re living on bizzaro world.


47 posted on 03/25/2013 8:47:05 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Old Sarge

You are a bad man.


48 posted on 03/25/2013 8:49:11 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

Well....we send our queers and women to fight now...ships should be named sensitively as well.

How about some fighting heroes and names of warrior renown....nah, too old, male, angry and white.

It started to go to hell when they named a carrier for Carter whose only combat was with an aggressive aquatic rabbit and its been downhill ever since.

My father and and two uncles served on ships with names like Midway, Iowa, and Duncan.....now my sons will serve on the Gabby...oh wait...they won’t join a navy like this....and that guys is the plan. As well as Mabus boot-licking Obama and the libs wanting to memorialize another brain impaired gun victim prop before they plant old Jim Brady.


49 posted on 03/25/2013 8:49:55 PM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Red Steel

Ray Mabus is making quite a name for himself.

First the USS John P. Murtha and now the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

Ray baby needs to go, and soon.


50 posted on 03/25/2013 8:51:28 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Red Steel

I hope on day 1, someone scuttles the ship.


51 posted on 03/25/2013 8:51:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Steel

Better we name a ship after Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull...they were real warriors.


52 posted on 03/25/2013 8:52:20 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Red Steel

What happened to her was horrible. She is dealing with it. Why is that courageous?

What would be an example of an uncourageous way of dealing with something like this?


53 posted on 03/25/2013 8:53:27 PM PDT by DManA
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To: mylife
Correct, very puke worthy this is!
54 posted on 03/25/2013 8:54:27 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Red Steel

She was shit. Probbaly approriate to name an LPR in her memory


55 posted on 03/25/2013 8:54:59 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: Red Steel

I guess we can expect the USS Yoko Ono and the USS Jim Carrey next for their “courage” in the liberals’ fight against the Bill of Rights.


56 posted on 03/25/2013 8:55:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Whatever happened to the land of the free, home of the brave?)
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To: Red Steel

Why name a vessel after a woman seeking to take my freedom and being openly used by others to take my freedom?

Forgive me for being blunt, but I don’t have a whole Hell of a lot of love and respect for Mrs. Giffords.


57 posted on 03/25/2013 8:55:37 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Red Steel
Let me get this straight...

You get a carrier named after you if are skilled enough to get shot in the head... ? forget all the selfless warriors we have lost, let's name it after a liberal politician who never really accomplished anything commendable.

I'm curious (I really don't know), does this woman have the capacity to understand the level in which she is being abused and paraded around just to gain political sympathy points? Even my very young son understands shame

58 posted on 03/25/2013 8:57:41 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Red Steel

Frank Gifford deserves it more.


59 posted on 03/25/2013 8:58:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: JaguarXKE

How about the USS Christie. Adrift off the coast of Jersey in a sea of his own stupidity?

Oh wait the tide has turned. I’m changing boats.


60 posted on 03/25/2013 8:59:02 PM PDT by glyptol
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