Posted on 01/20/2024 11:45:20 AM PST by Mean Daddy
The Navy is about to name a ship in honor of Omaha’s World War II “Hero of the Solomons.”
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced last week that one of the next new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 142) will be named for Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French, who was born in Arkansas in 1919 but was raised by his sister in Omaha after his parents died.
The Navy traditionally names its destroyers after Navy and Marine Corps heroes. Other ships in the Arleigh Burke class have been named for Revolutionary War Capt. John Paul Jones and Civil War Adm. David Farragut, known for his declaration “Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead!” Several carry the names of Medal of Honor recipients.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
Your Post: Regardless, the guy was a real hero.
My Reply: Hero, absolutely...
The statement I with picture was replying to “Blennos” (Post #2 above), obviously didn’t read the article.
Hirohito?
The signal/noise ratio in the comments is very low.
Has the Navy ever renamed a ship?
Is it rare for a ship to be named after a CPO (I would expect Captain, Commander, Admiral)?
Wasn’t Oliver Hazard Perry a Commodore? Does that rank not exist any more?
Roger that!
I get it. I didn’t think your post was racist, but it could have been misconstrued, especially by those seeking cause to be offended, a class to which I do not belong. I made the same google search you did, but had I posted his picture (you beat me to the draw) I would have been clear that I do not give jack-squat about his color.
These people (liberals) really want to divide us by race and ethnicity.
I don't know how often that has happened, but there was this name swap:
USS Hancock (CV-19)
The ship was laid down as Ticonderoga on 26 January 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts and subsequently renamed Hancock on 1 May 1943. This renaming was done in response to an offer from the John Hancock Life Insurance Company to conduct a special bond drive to raise money for the ship if that name was used. (The shipyard at Quincy was in the company's home state.) CV-14, originally laid down as Hancock and under construction at the same time in Newport News, Virginia, took the name Ticonderoga instead.
It is a Free Republic tradition to post without reading the article.
....sadly, YES.....and recently, too....the sordid case of
the U.S.S. Chancellorsville.....renamed because too many snowflakes got their panties in a twist because the ship was originally named for a Civil War battle .......
“...I would have been clear that I do not give jack-squat about his color...”
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Thank you for posting the photograph of the USS Gregory.
Actually I did attempt to read the article. But my browser has a built-in ad blocker. I was thus not allowed by the Omaha Herald to access the site. Annoying but my ad blocker will not relent.
Wasn’t Oliver Hazard Perry a Commodore? Does that rank not exist any more?
Only during wartime, I believe.
It’s Rear Admiral, Lower Half - one star. Rear Admiral, Upper Half is a two star.
Thanks for the link!!
I plan to watch it tonight...
“The greatest generation.”
I don’t know about that, but they did their duty.
I’m called a “Boomer” and approaching the end of life.
I have no respect for the hippie generation Effing up our country.
At least we aren’t going to name an aircraft carrier Obama
Johnson, Nixon, or Clinton.
But USS Doris is not a aircraft carrier I’d want to serve on. Too politically correct.
Figured as much.
I watched it again last night-great movie!
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