President Ford was a Naval Aviator in WWII.
Show some damn respect.
Do you feel the same way about SSN-23?
“President Ford was a Naval Aviator in WWII.”
...not according to the Ford Library:
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/naval.htm
Show some damn respect.
Jerry was also a mediocre president, who had previously experienced a typical (if undistinguished) wartime navy assignment. IMO, presidents with naval backgrounds should be honored in the same way that *Admiral* McCain was honored, or the five Sullivan brothers were honored. Put their names on destroyers, not the CVNs.
This practice of putting the names of national leaders on the largest capital ships has a really European feel to it. We should probably chart a different course.
Gerald Ford was a deck officer on the light carrier USS Monterey, not an aviator.
I first read about him in “Halsey’s Typhoon”
President Ford’s decisions saved his ship and the lives of everyone on it.
I was shocked
I don’t believe he was an aviator. But he did serve, with great distinction, and was nearly lost over the side during the typhoon.
He fought those fires in the hangar bay of the USS Monterrey, and those fires were so bad that one passing ship in Typhoon Cobra, seeing her in flames from stem to stern was heard to say over TBS: “Well, there goes Monterrey...”
Ford was not a great president, but he was there at a difficult time, and he did serve in WWII, and served well.
He has my respect, even if I can criticize him as a politician.