Posted on 09/14/2016 6:12:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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You've been here long enough to know better .... just sayin ..
Yes, Milk is dead, but Giffords is not.
Mabus is an utter disaster for the Navy and Marine Corps. He views them as an extreme left wing social laboratory to implement his hair brained ideas. And this guy was Governor of Mississippi????
I can see the USS Harvey Milk being nicknamed the “Big Twinkie”
“Why, critics questioned, would (Mabus) name a ship in honor of the late gay rights leader Harvey Milk or after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when there are plenty of military heroes to choose from?”
Because he’s a liberal commie faggot. That’s why.
Kind of fitting that Milk would me memorialized with a ship that sticks its tubes into another ships orifice and passes lubricants.
Go back to naming submarines after fish.
I heard a long time ago that sailors aboard an objectionably named craft simply refer to it by its designation. Like the BJ Clinton.
‘Why, critics questioned, would he name a ship in honor of the late gay rights leader Harvey Milk or after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when there are plenty of military heroes to choose from?’
Because he’s an assh0le.
True dat, I missed that one.
FReegards!
Mabus had no comment regarding the new sub tender, U.S.S. Ballgag.
USS Hillary Rodham Clinton DDG-666
U S S Caitlyn Jenner
Destroyer names traditionally (and still) are heroes, and some fairly 'obscure', and most NOT flag officers or MOH recipients.
but not cities
Cruisers were traditionally named for cities, Battleships for states.
State and City names for US Navy ships go back to the early 1800s.
One of the very earliest US Navy ships, USS Bonhomme Richard was named (indirectly) for the then still living Benjamin Franklin.
FWIW.
Don’t sailors often give themselves or ships nicknames? What a bunch of weird nicknames could be stuck on the U.S.S Milk and the sailors who serve on her.
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