[Milsurplus] OT: Re: Stinson's Law and More (OT)

[J. Forster]

Maybe they should name a submarine the John F. Kerry....  it never
surfaces except to get re-elected and is all but invisible in his home
state. However, there are always ample supplies of hamburger condiments on
board!

YMMV,

-John

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>> Check-out the new clown-parties and train-wrecks they call the
>> F-35 fighter and the Littoral Combat Ships.  Pitiful.
>
> Careful, Dave.
>
> Don't forget that one of those ships (LCS-10) is named after that
> immortal legend of U.S. Navy history, a politician with total
> lack of military credentials, Gabby Giffords!!!  This is only the
> 13th US ship ever named after a person still living.  I wonder
> how the artist for the ship's crest will associate *any* Giffords
> "achievement" to *anything* US Navy-related.  But so inspiring!
>
> Then, there's the USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14), named after a
> labor-boss who called the time he served in the US Navy in WWII
> “the two worst years of my life".  I suppose those words will be
> incorporated into the ship's crest and motto.  But so inspiring!
>
> Then, there's the USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26), named after a
> washed-out Washington political hack of 36 years and, just
> incidentally, a USMC veteran.  He was like some few dishonorable
> veterans found from any earlier war who disparage and insult those
> of later wars...this time with uninformed war-crime allegations
> read from NBC "News" and then spouted from the Senate floor.
> Charges that were found to be unsubstantiated.  But so inspiring!
>
> All of these insults to honorable US servicemen have taken place
> in the past two years.  It must be challenging for USN civilian
> politicians of the ilk put in place since 2009 to identify anyone
> who actually deserved these honors.  There's worse coming.
>
> Mike / KK5F (long ago ex-LCDR, USN)
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