Naval veterans get some:
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, under fire from Congress and veterans for naming ships after fellow Democrats and social activists, plans to announce another round of ship names in the near future that will be more traditional, a Pentagon official tells The Washington Times.
The official said Mr. Mabus has chosen names for five surface ships – three for war heroes and two for locations. Ships typically are named after states and cities.
“I think they would be more consistent with what most people would say traditions and naming conventions are,” the official said.
About fracking time. “Murtha”, “Chavez”, and “Gabrielle Giffords” forsooth.
These are meant to be warships, not Facebook friends.
Lex/
Ignorant-of-most-thing-naval ex-zommie here always understood/thought that renaming ships was thought to bring bad luck, yet the world’s navies seem to do it frequently. Any chance of a new non-Obama Administration reversing and renaming the odious trio? And would it be seen by old Navy hands as courting bad luck?
So no U.S.S. Zuckerberg? Wasn’t Facebook the reason for the Arab Spring? Makes as much sense as the Murtha, Chavez, or Giffords.
These are meant to be warships, not Facebook friends.
That’s damn near priceless.
For once, my NY colleague and I agree.
As my sainted Father would say, ” These bastards are as shallow as piss on a flat rock.”
We need LEADERSHIP right now….not the Village Idiot from Chicago’s warped worldview.
I harken back to what was said the last time we faced an election of this magnitude:
” Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago ?”
Oh, we agree on quite a bit, just not football teams.
Unfortunately I am in the awkward position of having to answer the question you asked with an honest yes. It’s unfortunately only in that doing so means Obama will take credit for that though he nor his policies had anything to do with it.
Huzzah!
Yep, the USS Houston is right at the top of those “locations”. As in USS Whitney Houston, the “greatest singer ever to utter a note” as some high-priced talking head uttered last week.
G-man, please tell me you’re kidding about the quote…
In order to honor the new kind’er and gentle’er Navy, perhaps we should name a warship
“The Pink Unicorn”. So many people would simply love that. An olive branch held out to
those that hate us and would cheerfully decapitate each of us and string our bodys up on the yardarm
of- – - now wait for it – - – The Pink Unicorn!
Roger
@Roger, that’d be good to have in a Strike Group alongside CV-76. The crew already refers to her as the “Rainbow Reagan.”
Too little, too late. Time for a Ship Naming Board to review the names of every single ship in the Navy…with summary authority to rename anything named for an elected official.
” . . . with summary authority to rename anything named for an elected official.”
Or a “community organizer”.
Methinks what needs reaming is the posterior occupying the copious chair of the SecNav.
Er… “reNaming”… Freudian slip. Apologies for the disturbing imagery.
I think you may have been right the first time.
When we elect a new President in about 9 1/2 months from now, there will need to be a serious purging of the appointees put in place by the sheister from Chicago…They have caused too much damage to our beloved nation.
This is what you get when Washington weenies want to put women in combat because it gives them better career opportunity. The military is not about popularity contests or an EOE campaign. The military is about protecting this country and it’s citizens. Just one question: What ever it is you are proposing, will it make the military a better fighting machine??????
We can now release the winners of the “Worst Ever” trifecta:
Catagory Winner
President Obungler
Attorney General Holder
SECNAV Mabus
Quote of the Month: These are meant to be warships, not Facebook friends.
Damned straight.
The Murtha selection is one of those things in life that instantly piss me off every time I hear/read/think about it.
well, the carl vinson is precedent for this.
I hate adding to US Code but here is one place to make an exception. I think we should have a federal law limiting the naming of any federal property (from post office to military base to ship). No one should be able to be nominated as a namesake until 100 years following their death, or they have been awarded one of the top 3 Military decorations. I think a century is enough of a “cooling off” period to allow history to better evaluate the contributions of an individual. We have plenty of significant battles, cities, states, and heores from a century ago to fill the federal property log.
Ah, but the fly in the ointment, Alen, is that these chairwarmers generally consider their election to a public orifice to be at least the equivalent of being awarded the CMH.
They see their election to office as an earned award & affirmation of their greatness & superiority in its own right, rather than the equivalent to being hired to do a job that their employers are too busy to do themselves.
I agree with you, but given Congress’ non-existent record for limiting their own options for self-aggrandizment, I hold out little hope.
I’m not sure how you possibly be surprised / disappointed by anything our SecNav does after viewing this photo of LT jg Mabus.
Augh! A Dirty Myopic Hippie stole someone’s hat!
Obviously one of Zumwalt’s rope-smokers. Prolly moon-lighted as a Bennie Boy at Subic whenever the 7th put in for a port call.
This is a Presidential election year. The rule “by any means necessary” is applicable here. Depending upon the results come the morning of November 7, expect this new sensitivity to evaporate. Actually, come to think of it, no matter the outcome, expect this to go down the rabbit hole. The only question will be: Will it end on Inauguration Day, 2013 or 2017?
what posters here need to do (same with on lex, ID, blackfive etctra…. I do not belive we can relie defensetech or DODbuzz(their reporters seem to be enjoying the “politics and mystery” behind the coming budget cuts more then the fact this will affect real people)) is start bombarding his twitter, FB, and the US Navy’s respective account’s with our demands, simply put its not the democrats or republican navy If we want to take out the Murtha we got to be willing to sacrafice the John Warner, its ours and its time we take it back. If anyone ever gets a chance to challenge him do it, some of the folks who goto the SNA and other things need to take a stand or we risk loosing more of our collective history. Also where the frack has Bob Work been during all of these debacles, we may of been bitching about Astronaught Mark Kelly for not knowing better but Work who had no problem coming out publicly on things in the past should be held just as accountable
repost from ID and CDR Salamder
the way to stop this is legislation that states that if a navy ship is named after you, you cannot have anything else named for you (for example highways, lakes, government funded buildings, etc.) This would dash political egoes and stop the bad practice.
hot off the wire:
http://www.marinelink.com/news/names-ships-five342563.aspx
the new names for the littorals will be Souix City and Omaha.
not flashy, but certainly not insulting either.
I like how LCS-10 got a nice big flash ceremony all by itself but a ship named for three heroes of the Navy and USMC apparently get a “Here! Fine! Shut up” dump all at once.
I think anyone who deserves a ship named after him/her deserves more than those LCSs. “Low survivability”. Oh boy.
These are meant to be warships, not Facebook friends.
EPIC!
What’s with naming ships after Democrats anyhow? I thought they were “anti-war”?
I just had an epiphany. There’s a method to his madness. Since LCS testing isn’t going very well ,and Defense cuts are inevitable, what better way to ensure LCS hulls 1-10 get built than to name #10 after the current darling of the Democratic Party. No Dem would think to cut the LCS program if it meant the loss of one with the namesake of one of their own.