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Posted: 4/17/2012 11:49:59 AM EDT
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It'll sure be an exciting commissioning day when all those seamen rush aboard and get the Johnson ready for action! http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15190 Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
I'd be happy if this thread was 50% talking about why the name sucks and 50% immature jokes. All phones on the ship are in the heads. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 11:51:02 AM EDT
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What a shitty president.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 11:51:12 AM EDT
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Getting this guy out of office should be more than enough incentive to vote for Romney.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 11:52:17 AM EDT
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It'll sure be an exciting commissioning day when all those seamen rush aboard and get the Johnson ready for action! http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15190 Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
I'd be happy if this thread was 50% talking about why the name sucks and 50% immature jokes. I'm strangely comfortable with it. These are primarily bombardment and land attack vessels and LBJ is the President known for messing up the land beyond all recognition. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:01:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: It'll sure be an exciting commissioning day when all those seamen rush aboard and get the Johnson ready for action! http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15190 Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. I'd be happy if this thread was 50% talking about why the name sucks and 50% immature jokes. ETA: Feel free to note the utter lack of the word "Vietnam" in the press release. Somehow. How about LBJ quotes? "No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn" "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." - LBJ's address at Johns Hopkins University:"Peace Without Conquest" , April 7, 1965 "The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me." "There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility." "This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you." LBJ, speaking to journalist Chalmer Roberts in October 1967 |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:03:28 PM EDT
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Bad enough they named a ship after him, but at least he didn't get his name on a Carrier.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:04:51 PM EDT
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It'll sure be an exciting commissioning day when all those seamen rush aboard and get the Johnson ready for action! http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15190 Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
I'd be happy if this thread was 50% talking about why the name sucks and 50% immature jokes. ETA: Feel free to note the utter lack of the word "Vietnam" in the press release. Somehow. How about LBJ quotes? "No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn" "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." "The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me." "There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility." "This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you." I wish him and McNamara had choked on each other's cocks in a Progressive 69 while planning how to fuck over American troops in VN. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:08:20 PM EDT
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All aboard the fail boat...
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:10:10 PM EDT
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EBT's accepted on the Mess Deck and in the Ships Store.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:12:37 PM EDT
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EBT's accepted on the Mess Deck and in the Ships Store. Get your Great Society pork rinds on special! |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:13:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:17:24 PM EDT
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The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:17:35 PM EDT
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Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers.
Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:18:52 PM EDT
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The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty. I do hope they used quality American steel and not inferior Chinese steel. You wouldn't want your seamen coming out of a soft Johnson. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:20:02 PM EDT
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All joking aside I find it fascinating that the precedent is being set that a past POTUS is getting a destroyer named after him and not a Super Carrier. That to me is *very* significant.
If this holds then I'm OK with naming future DDG's after presidents and that we go back to naming carriers after famous battles and of course, Enterprise. -Gator |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:21:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:21:20 PM EDT
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Suggested motto from dc at CDR Sal's blog: "Standing Tall, Firm and Ready".
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:26:23 PM EDT
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Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. USS Roosevelt DDG-80. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:26:26 PM EDT
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Mabus is a politician. He has already been warned by congress about his ship naming scheme when he named another after Gabrielle Giffords. It is obvious that he is abusing his position to implement long lasting liberal icons in the naming of US Navy vessels. The current crop of new ships will be in service for 40 years or more and naming them after liberals is just part of the socialist agenda.
This entire administration is nothing more than a jit stain on a dirty hotel bed sheet. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:30:13 PM EDT
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Guess we should just be happy that it isn't the USS Potemkin.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:33:51 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. USS Roosevelt DDG-80. .. is named after both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. "On 22 October 1996, the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton, announced that the 30th ship of the Arleigh Burke-class, would be named Roosevelt. This is the first ship so named to honor both Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United Statesand the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. (The aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) served from 1945–1977 before being scrapped.) " Meanwhile.... "USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) (also known by crewmembers as "the Big Stick" or within the navy simply as TR) is the fourth Nimitz-class supercarrier. Her radio call sign is Rough Rider, the name of President Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry unit during the Spanish-American War. She was launched in 1984, saw her first action during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, and is currently homeported at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia." Really, how could we reasonably float TWO Roosevelt carriers at a time? |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:39:52 PM EDT
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Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. Ditto. From Wikipedia on Johnson's military career: Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot down with no survivors. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Lyndon Johnson said it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[18] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.[18]
Don't forget his election stealing in Texas early on. A fuckstick named a failboat after another fuckstick. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:46:46 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. Ditto. From Wikipedia on Johnson's military career: Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot down with no survivors. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Lyndon Johnson said it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[18] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.[18] Don't forget his election stealing in Texas early on. A fuckstick named a failboat after another fuckstick. Even the Professor from Gilligan's Island had a better military career than LBJ: http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=122766 Russell David Johnson (born November 10, 1924)  
After high school, in the midst of World War II, Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet; upon commissioning as a second lieutenant, Johnson was assigned the service number 0 765 497. He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 bombers. While flying as a navigator in a B-25 with the 100th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, his plane and two other B-25s were shot down in the Philippines in March 1945 during a low level bombing and strafing run against Japanese targets. The planes were hit by intense flak and had to ditch in the waters off the port ofZamboanga. During the ditching, he broke both his ankles and the radioman next to him was killed. Russell Johnson earned a Purple Heart for this mission. He was also awarded the Air Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three service stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one service star, and the World War II Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged with the rank of first lieutenant on November 22, 1945. He then joined the Army Reserve and used the GI Bill to fund his acting studies at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood. At acting school he met actress Kay Levey and they married on July 23, 1949.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:49:01 PM EDT
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"All hands on deck.................Prepare the Johnson for action"!
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Posted: 4/17/2012 12:51:19 PM EDT
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Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. Ditto. From Wikipedia on Johnson's military career: Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot down with no survivors. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Lyndon Johnson said it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[18] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.[18]
Don't forget his election stealing in Texas early on. A fuckstick named a failboat after another fuckstick. Even the Professor from Gilligan's Island had a better military career than LBJ: http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=122766 Russell David Johnson (born November 10, 1924) http://airforcephotos.togetherweserved.com/236134.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/453/000026375/rj2-crop.jpg
After high school, in the midst of World War II, Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet; upon commissioning as a second lieutenant, Johnson was assigned the service number 0 765 497. He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 bombers. While flying as a navigator in a B-25 with the 100th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, his plane and two other B-25s were shot down in the Philippines in March 1945 during a low level bombing and strafing run against Japanese targets. The planes were hit by intense flak and had to ditch in the waters off the port ofZamboanga. During the ditching, he broke both his ankles and the radioman next to him was killed. Russell Johnson earned a Purple Heart for this mission. He was also awarded the Air Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three service stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one service star, and the World War II Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged with the rank of first lieutenant on November 22, 1945. He then joined the Army Reserve and used the GI Bill to fund his acting studies at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood. At acting school he met actress Kay Levey and they married on July 23, 1949. Yeah, but Johnson wins with his illegitimate Silver Star and leading the country down the toilet. Hat's off to the Professor, nonetheless |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:29:33 PM EDT
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Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. Ditto. From Wikipedia on Johnson's military career: Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot down with no survivors. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Lyndon Johnson said it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[18] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.[18]
Don't forget his election stealing in Texas early on. A fuckstick named a failboat after another fuckstick. Note that while Johnson got the silver star, no other member of the crew of the plane he was on got anything. Rumor has it that Congressman Johnson got the Silver Star from MacArthur in returning for lobbying for MacArthur when Johnson got back to DC. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:31:54 PM EDT
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USS Liberal Blow Job.......LBJ
One of the 5 worst Presidents evar!!! |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:32:21 PM EDT
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Quoted: The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty. There is a Johnson worth naming a warship after, although I have no idea what the guy did; it's the last warship named after him that makes it a name to covet, i.e. Commander Evans' destroyer at the Action off Samar. Not sure a Zumwalt would be a good candidate, though, since it seems to be another failboat. Naming a warship or giving any sort of honour to LBJ is just sick. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:32:54 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Can't this idiot stick to some kind of fixed naming convention? Carriers are named after Presidents, not Destroyers. Fuck LBJ and OBAMA. Ummmmmmmm? Cause Mabus is a fuck stick? Yeah I'll go with that. Ditto. From Wikipedia on Johnson's military career: Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot down with no survivors. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Lyndon Johnson said it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[18] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.[18] Don't forget his election stealing in Texas early on. A fuckstick named a failboat after another fuckstick. Note that while Johnson got the silver star, no other member of the crew of the plane he was on got anything. Rumor has it that Congressman Johnson got the Silver Star from MacArthur in returning for lobbying for MacArthur when Johnson got back to DC. Ya think? A Navy rent-a-LCdr, "observing" on a USAAF bomber mission, in which the aircraft doesn't actually make it to the mission... Nor does it make any mention of him having any military service prior to June 21st of 1940... http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/faqs/military/military.asp PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON'S MILITARY SERVICE Compiled by LBJ Library Staff
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:33:20 PM EDT
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The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty. There is a Johnson worth naming a warship after, although I have no idea what the guy did; it's the last warship named after him that makes it a name to covet, i.e. Commander Evans' destroyer at the Action off Samar. Not sure a Zumwalt would be a good candidate, though, since it seems to be another failboat. Psst. That was the USS Johnston. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:34:06 PM EDT
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All phones on the ship are in the heads. I see what you did there. 
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:35:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty. There is a Johnson worth naming a warship after, although I have no idea what the guy did; it's the last warship named after him that makes it a name to covet, i.e. Commander Evans' destroyer at the Action off Samar. Not sure a Zumwalt would be a good candidate, though, since it seems to be another failboat. Psst. That was the USS Johnston. I had a feeling there was a 't' in there that I was missing. Still, it would be a much more worthy name than LBJ's; Evans would be another good name. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:36:29 PM EDT
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The jokes will really come when the seamen come flying out of the Johnson for liberty. There is a Johnson worth naming a warship after, although I have no idea what the guy did; it's the last warship named after him that makes it a name to covet, i.e. Commander Evans' destroyer at the Action off Samar. Not sure a Zumwalt would be a good candidate, though, since it seems to be another failboat. Psst. That was the USS Johnston. I had a feeling there was a 't' in there that I was missing. Still, it would be a much more worthy name than LBJ's; Evans would be another good name. Evans would be an outstanding name. Unfortunately, it looks like the D's are "getting even" with the R's for naming everything after Reagan. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:38:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: All joking aside I find it fascinating that the precedent is being set that a past POTUS is getting a destroyer named after him and not a Super Carrier. That to me is *very* significant. If this holds then I'm OK with naming future DDG's after presidents and that we go back to naming carriers after famous battles and of course, Enterprise. -Gator The traditional naming convention for carriers is American battles (Saratoga; Lexington), famous USN sailing warship names (Enterprise; Wasp), and persons and places associated with the pioneering of aviation (Kitty Hawk; Langley). Naming them after Presidents is more recent and a break from tradition. In any case, Presidents would have, traditionally, been applied to destroyers (and later, destroyer leaders and destroyer escorts/ocean escorts/frigates) if they were to be given to a warship at all. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:40:34 PM EDT
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It will always list to port.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 2:47:44 PM EDT
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Quoted: It will always list to port. Just wait: The Dems will get the MSM to force a change to the port-side nautical nav lighting color, from red to blue... |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 3:49:26 PM EDT
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Quoted: What a shitty president. All I can say is- The shittiest president we ever had is no longer from Texas. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 3:52:43 PM EDT
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This fuckwit has got to go, and the ships he has named be renamed unless they've been christened. Goddamned disaster. |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 4:00:31 PM EDT
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What a shitty president. Well he did hold cabinet meetings while taking a shit IIRC... cabinet in the restroom and all. I can't believe nobody called him on that shit. He was a President, not a king. 
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Posted: 4/17/2012 4:38:24 PM EDT
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Silver Stars for everybody as end of float awards?
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Posted: 4/17/2012 5:42:24 PM EDT
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Quoted: Mabus is a politician. He has already been warned by congress about his ship naming scheme when he named another after Gabrielle Giffords. It is obvious that he is abusing his position to implement long lasting liberal icons in the naming of US Navy vessels. The current crop of new ships will be in service for 40 years or more and naming them after liberals is just part of the socialist agenda. This entire administration is nothing more than a jit stain on a dirty hotel bed sheet. This!  |
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Posted: 4/17/2012 6:33:29 PM EDT
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Screw all this. I want to see a ship named the USS Essess.
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