To: snippy_about_it
Good Morninng, Snippy.
I used to know the "rules" of Navy ship naming conventions during WWII. Now a days it sure seems more a "what do I feel like doing today" type system.
16 posted on
06/27/2003 5:54:49 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(Gravity brings me down.)
To: SAMWolf
Good morning.
I'm almost as confused as I was before the research. lol.
It was interesting how it seems to be at someone's whim if they have the power. Arrrgh!
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
It's definitely "make up the rules". Look at the Seawolves, for example. The first (Seawolf) went back to the old sea creatures, the second (Connecticut) is for the main state for submarining, and the third (Peanut Farmer, er, Jimmy Carter) went for a former nuc whose sole positive contribution to the nation was starting to build the modern navy (never mind he underbuilt it and it took Reagan's 600-ship navy pledge to get it right).
33 posted on
06/27/2003 6:54:34 AM PDT by
steveegg
(Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, air-burst artillery and thermonuclear weapons)
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