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They are actually going to do this. I wonder if it comes with a box cigars. https://www.navy.mil/Press-Off...s-cvn-82-and-cvn-83/ | ||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Like it or hate it, they're sticking with the recent past. Means CVN 84 should the Obama and CVN 85 the USS Trump. CVN 86 will the Mr. Potato Head - with Hasbro providing the mascot giveaway toys. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Sad. Especially for someone who once said he loathes the military. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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Despite the positive or negative aspects of said president, if we are going to name aircraft carriers after presidents then it needs be consistent.. CVN trump will piss of just as many people as CVN biden | |||
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| The Unmanned Writer |
Here's a dream - the Ford Class is replaced with the new Trump Class at CVN 85 then the USS Biden will still be a Trump Class carrier.  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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delicately calloused |
I don’t think every president is represented by a naval vessel let alone a carrier. Why start that now? You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Looking at life thru a windshield  |
Do we really want a ship that will be associated with the term "going down", will have to rename the bathrooms too no longer refer to them as " gotta go to the head" | |||
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Unreal… ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
They've been doing it for the last 25 years or so though. It probably won't change until either a President requests they stop or something happens that makes them go off in another direction. I can't think of what that might be though. | |||
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The jokes abut Clinton and seamen write themselves. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Longer than that. They started naming carriers after presidents in 1945 with the Midway class CV named after Franklin Roosevelt. The practice then really picked up starting in 1970 with the Nimitz class CVNs: Eisenhower Roosevelt Lincoln Washington Truman Reagan H.W. Bush And they continued that tradition with the new Ford class CVNs: Ford Kennedy Clinton W. Bush To be presumably followed in short order by Obama, Trump, and Biden. Two other post-WW2 presidents have non-carrier ships named after them: Johnson (Zumwalt-class destroyer) Carter (Seawolf-class submarine) Leaving only Nixon with no ships that bear his name. Of the 45 US presidents, only 19 have not had naval vessels named after them. And out of those, 3 (Obama/Biden/Trump) are basically guaranteed to get theirs, leaving only 16 of the more obscure presidents left out. (Well, 15 obscure and 1 scandal-ridden early resigner). | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
They should give his name to a Submarine then.... | |||
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| A man's got to know his limitations  |
It is disgusting to me that they would name US Navy ships after scum like slick willie, obummer and fucking biden. These men were no friends to the military. "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
There's going to be a lot of snickering during dress blues inspections. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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The naming conventions that the past handful of SECNAV's have continued with has been a hot mess. If they're going to be named after Presidents, than at least they could've at least worn the uniform in a prior career. At least Doris Miller wore the uniform with distinction however being amongst a number of presidents, reinforces the disgrace that the naming was purely political pandering. Clinton disliked the military, he found them a necessary nuisance, the high-point of his interaction with the military was the Somalia/Blackhawk Down episode and getting involved with the Balkan Wars. GW Bush...too soon, let him pass then revisit the idea of honorariums. Considering the looming fight in the Pacific, it'd be highly appropriate to name our next carriers, Lexington, Yorktown, Ranger, Hornet, etc.... | |||
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Coin Sniper |
I'd think Clinton, Obama, and Biden would be better applied to garbage scows. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
Does this mean that Tailhook is coming back? I'd like to see some naval tradition carried on with names like Kitty Hawk, Hornet, Midway and Yorktown being revived for carriers. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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The conference has been going on for sometime since the infamous incident. Register now for the August get-together | |||
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We should stop honoring politicians and start naming ships after MOH recipients. They are the ones that should be remembered. Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Guys, we may be missing the point. If the practice of naming each new CVN after the Presidents (in sequence), the US Navy gets TWO carriers named for President Trump! CVN 45 and CVN 47.  Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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