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The brazenly open political favoritism that influences the naming of ships turns my stomach.
Hey weren't they supposedly going back to "traditional naming"? Guess we'll file that under "If you like your doctor..."
We probably just ran out of young Sailors and Marines that were killed or horribly maimed fighting to save their brethren on the battlefield.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Hey weren't they supposedly going back to "traditional naming"? Guess we'll file that under "If you like your doctor..."
We probably just ran out of young Sailors and Marines that were killed or horribly maimed fighting to save their brethren on the battlefield.
Tongue is firmly in cheek here. If we are going to stoop to naming our naval ships after politicians who have not served and sully the honor a ships name is supposed to have why not make a buck off it. Yep, how about corporate sponsors how about U.S.S. Pepsi, U.S.S. Budweiser, U.S.S. Exxon-Mobile, or U.S.S. Chevy? You put up a certain percentage of building the ship and you get naming rights. I mean if the Navy is going to sell their soul when it comes to naming ships, why not go the whole way?
The first honorary US citizen; British First Lord of the Admiralty; Prime Minister; Nobel prize winner in literature. At least he was in charge of then the largest navy in the world.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Col Harvey Barnum USMC (ret.)
Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Reserve Affairs)
Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
LtGen Frank E. Petersen USMC (ret.)
First African-American Marine Corps aviator
First African-American Marine Corps general
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
The first honorary US citizen; British First Lord of the Admiralty; Prime Minister; Nobel prize winner in literature. At least he was in charge of then the largest navy in the world.
Excuses :)
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
Washington signed the act into law that created the USN
Reagan over saw the expansion of the USN from a fleet that relief mostly on surplus WWII hulls and whose crews suffered from demoralization into one that was mostly new build and digital with high espirit de corps.
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