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This is a CG picture of CVN-78, the new carrier design that will replace the Nimitz-classs carriers in 2015.
She's going to replace Enterprise, which will decommission after 54 years of service.
Navy veterans want her to be named America, as CV-66 was, & thus making it the America-class.
John Warner, senator from VA, has other ideas, though. Since carriers have been named for presidents & other officials since Nimitz, he wishess to name the ship after a president. Which one?
GERALD R. FORD.
Now I agreed with his call to name CVN-77 Lexington (it wasn't, she's USS George H. W. Bush, no shit), but this is absurd. And Congress has approved it.
I SERIOUSLY hope BUSHIPS laughs long & hard at them.
(Another senator, James Inhofe, wants CVN-78 to be named Wilderness, after the first battle between Grant & Lee. Can't see that, either.)
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Hey, at least it's not going to be the USS George W. Bush!
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Yet.
There's SO many other presidents they could choose. Woodrow Wilson. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Ulysses S. Grant. James Madison. James Monroe. But FORD??
This trend of recent individuals has to stop.
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Could be worse- it could be the USS Rumsfeld.
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Congress may have approved the name, but isn't the final call made by the US Navy itself, specifically the CNO? For all you know, it could get the name USS Franklin D. Roosevelt or even USS United States (they've been trying to get a carrier with that name for awhile) or even USS Robert F. Kennedy.
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Exactly. Like I said, Lexington vs. George H. W. Bush.
A bunch of folks are trying to get the Navy to name one of the new Virginia-class subs Monitor.
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Groups of vehicles named "Ford" just strike me as a bad idea.
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Because then all those pictures of ships named Enterprise would be historically inaccurate. Bad enough Starfleet kept forgetting the NX-01 all these years.
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There is talk of the first of the new CVN21 class being named after the Enterprise. My guess is that they will not do it. IIRC CVN-65 is due to be retired in 2015 which is when the first of the new breed is expected to be completed. They usually do not go from ship to ship with names without some break. (Though the Lex had an Essex named after her shortly after her sinking at The Coral Sea)
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Actually, CVN-78 will actually enter service a few months before CVN-65 is decommed, so it can't be named Enterprise. Plus, for a new ship to be able to receive a previous ship's name, the previous ship itself must first be stricken off the Navy list. So even if CVN-65 is decommed before CVN-78 enters service, if the carrier hasn't been stricken off the list, CVN-78 still can't get the name.
As for the Lexingtons, CV-2 was stricken off the list as soon as she was sunk so that her Essex class successor could get the name. Though as I understand, CV-16 was unofficially named PCU Lexington before CV-2 was stricken and wasn't officially named until her launch.
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