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

[Peter Gottlieb]

Might as well name one after GW Bush, Kerry at least didn't chicken out of service.


On 7/28/2012 5:44 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> 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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