Apparently you haven't read the latest directive, comrade. All new combat ships will be named for anti-gun heroines, as well as other liberal icons.
Wait until you see the USS Sarah Brady...
Posted on 06/15/2015 8:06:05 AM PDT by pabianice
The tenth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is slated to be christened for former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a Saturday ceremony in Mobile, Ala, the Pentagon announced this week.
Tomorrow, Jill Biden — the wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden — will break a bottle of sparkling wine in a ceremony to officially name the fifth Austal USA-built Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship after former democratic representative Gabrielle Giffords.
“The christening of the future USS Gabrielle Giffords marks the beginning of what is certain to be a long life for this great ship,” said Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus in a Thursday statement.
Giffords, a former member of the House Armed Services Committee from Arizona, was shot in a 2011 mass shooting that killed six and injured 11. She resigned her office in 2012.
That same year, Mabus announced the tenth LCS would be named after Giffords in a move that stirred a minor outcry in some naval circles.
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CVNs should never have been named after presidents. They were intended to be revolutionary war battles and warship names.
I don’t care what president we are discussing with the -sole possible- exception of George Washington.
Relax man...all magazines on the ship will be limited to 7 rounds.
USS Bergdahl is next.
Apparently you haven't read the latest directive, comrade. All new combat ships will be named for anti-gun heroines, as well as other liberal icons.
Wait until you see the USS Sarah Brady...
Shouldn’t it be a Clittoral Combat Ship?
This crap has been going on since the summer of 1969 at least, when the new construction USS Redfish (SSN-680) was hastily renamed USS William H. Bates upon his death. When asked why this was acquiesced to, ADM Rickover famously replied: “Fish don’t vote!”
At least he was dead. The Post Office used to require for 15 years after death for a person other than a dead president to appear on a stamp but they scrapped that in 2011. It’s part and parcel of what’s wrong this country and represents the triumph of personalities over principles.
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