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/

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.

Sad. Especially for someone who once said he loathes the military.

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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Originally posted by ElToro:
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

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.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
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.

I don’t think every president is represented by a naval vessel let alone a carrier. Why start that now?

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"

Unreal…

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

I don’t think every president is represented by a naval vessel let alone a carrier. Why start that now?

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.

The jokes abut Clinton and seamen write themselves.

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Originally posted by Paten:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

I don’t think every president is represented by a naval vessel let alone a carrier. Why start that now?

They've been doing it for the last 25 years or so though.

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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Originally posted by bigwagon:
The jokes abut Clinton and seamen write themselves.

They should give his name to a Submarine then....

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.

There's going to be a lot of snickering during dress blues inspections.

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....

I'd think Clinton, Obama, and Biden would be better applied to garbage scows.

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.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
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.

The conference has been going on for sometime since the infamous incident.
Register now for the August get-together

We should stop honoring politicians and start naming ships after MOH recipients. They are the ones that should be remembered.

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.