I’m more concerned with the recent trend of naming things after people that are still alive. I remember when we didn’t do that in America, because we remembered there was a fine line between memorializing and idolizing.
And then Barack Obama came along.
Carl Vinson?
Navy Sec decides. Done every so often since ‘74.
FWIW, I don’t really like the idea either, although MOH recipients isn’t a bad exception.