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  • USS Carl Levin!?

    Just another sign that Sec Nav Mabus is a hack. A destroyer is to be named after Senator Carl Levin.

    http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=94003

  • #2
    I didn't know Carl was a navy hero....
    "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by surfgun View Post
      I believe you're just being kind here. Too kind.

      The brazenly open political favoritism that influences the naming of ships turns my stomach.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Cruiser View Post
        I believe you're just being kind here. Too kind.

        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.”

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        • #5
          Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
          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?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by gunnut View Post
            I didn't know Carl was a navy hero....
            Just like Reagan and Washington?
            No such thing as a good tax - Churchill

            To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Doktor View Post
              Just like Reagan and Washington?
              They were at least presidents. One of them was the founder of the nation.

              Destroyers are usually named after Navy heroes.
              "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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              • #8
                Washington skippered a vessel accross the Delaware.
                Reagan played a Naval hero in a movie.

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                • #9
                  Reagan reinstated the battleships! That's enough right there!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                    They were at least presidents. One of them was the founder of the nation.

                    Destroyers are usually named after Navy heroes.

                    Like Churchill?
                    No such thing as a good tax - Churchill

                    To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Doktor View Post
                      Like Churchill?
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        USS Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. and USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. seem to have brought things back into proper balance.

                        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
                        Last edited by TopHatter; 23 Apr 16,, 02:36.
                        “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.”

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                          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.

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                          • #14
                            Carl, didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
                            Last edited by surfgun; 24 Apr 16,, 02:44.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Doktor View Post
                              Just like Reagan and Washington?
                              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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