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New U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier To Be Named USS Musk (1 Viewer)

j brown's body said:
The U.S. Navy will name its next aircraft carrier the USS Musk according to an executive order to be issued later today. The vessel, which was originally to be christened the USS Enterprise (CVN 80), is expected to be launched by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) in November. It will be the first carrier named after a serving Senior Advisor to the President.


The executive order on ship naming will follow on from a draft order in February entitled ‘Make Shipbuilding Great Again’. That order addressed the imbalance in shipbuilding between the United States and China. President Trump said at the time “We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them anymore very much, but we’re going to make them very fast, very soon.”

...Meanwhile, it now seems likely that the oldest commissioner ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Constitution, will be disposed of. The vintage vessel, which is made of wood, is no longer considered fit for purpose. Speaking over the weekend, a spokesperson for DOGE noted that wooden ships have no place in a modern warfare. This will also free up the Navy’s oak forests for commercial purposes."

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The Onion, right?
 
As long as we're at this happy namings stuff....


The first four ships in the Gerald R. Ford class are the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), USS Enterprise (CVN-80), and USS Doris Miller (CVN-81).

The USS John F. Kennedy is scheduled to be delivered to the US Navy by July 2025.

The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier is built using the steel of CVN 65, which was decommissioned in April 2018. It is the ninth ship to be named USS Enterprise and will replace USS Dwight D Eisenhower, which is expected to be decommissioned in 2029. The keel-laying ceremony for the USS Enterprise took place at the NNS shipyard in August 2022. The ship is expected to be delivered by September 2029.

The first steel for the USS Doris Miller was cut in August 2021. The keel for the ship is expected to be laid in 2026 and the ship is scheduled to be delivered in February 2032.

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My kid brother (son #4/4) was ASW on the original USS John F. Kennedy CV 67 called the "Big John" at the time. The Navy took him into its nuclear reactor Rapid Response Team that was at the Great Lakes Base to fly out to service the nuclear power plants of subs that back then (and still) had predictable but untimely emergency servicing needs.

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He said it was a lot of sitting around that he disliked so they did weights and stuff until there was an emergency either east or west to fly out -- and parachute to a sub at sea that would surface to haul 'em in out of the water. The team got a full report on the plane and identified their plan of action on board. Reports were constantly up to the moment with instructions given back to the sub. There already was a bunch of tools and equipment on the sub to do the repairs and maintenance into port. Other times the team would meet a sub in nuclear power plant trouble at a USN base if it could make it there safely.

"Action Man!"

My kid bro. (y)

He told me he signed up with the squids only after he done did it -- he knew I'd have kicked his arse if he'd said a word about it before doing the dirty deed. ;)
 
Tangmo said:
As long as we're at this happy namings stuff....


The first four ships in the Gerald R. Ford class are the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), USS Enterprise (CVN-80), and USS Doris Miller (CVN-81).
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USS Doris Miller is a weird one - they could've had USS Carter.
 
Rich2018 said:
USS Doris Miller is a weird one - they could've had USS Carter.
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Dorie Miller is much more deserving of a CVN that Carter. And Carter already has a SSN.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Dorie Miller is much more deserving of a CVN that Carter. And Carter already has a SSN.
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Because he won a medal ?

I think someone like Martin Luther King is far more deserving if you want an alternative to a president.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Dorie Miller is much more deserving of a CVN that Carter. And Carter already has a SSN.
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“More deserving” is in the eye of the beholder, but I do agree that Miller is a good choice. 👍👍
 
Luce said:
I have nothing against GHWB, voted for him twice, actually, but naming two carriers the same thing is the stupidest thing I've heard all year.
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George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush are similar. Not the same.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Welcome to 2005. The USS Jimmy Carter was commissioned in 2005. It is the third Seawolf class submarine. Appropriate since Carter was a bubblehead.
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Carter wasn’t just a bubblehead. He was among the first Naval officers personally interviewed/selected by then Captain Rickover, recognized as the “father of the nuclear Navy”, to be part of the Navy’s newest, and world’s most technologically advanced submarine fleet.

 
I want to invest in a ketchup company and then see the new Dem president in 2029 decide that one of these new carriers should be called USS Barack Obama
 
j brown's body said:
The U.S. Navy will name its next aircraft carrier the USS Musk according to an executive order to be issued later today. The vessel, which was originally to be christened the USS Enterprise (CVN 80), is expected to be launched by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) in November. It will be the first carrier named after a serving Senior Advisor to the President.


The executive order on ship naming will follow on from a draft order in February entitled ‘Make Shipbuilding Great Again’. That order addressed the imbalance in shipbuilding between the United States and China. President Trump said at the time “We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them anymore very much, but we’re going to make them very fast, very soon.”

...Meanwhile, it now seems likely that the oldest commissioner ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Constitution, will be disposed of. The vintage vessel, which is made of wood, is no longer considered fit for purpose. Speaking over the weekend, a spokesperson for DOGE noted that wooden ships have no place in a modern warfare. This will also free up the Navy’s oak forests for commercial purposes."

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They really dont understand historical preservation do they?
 
Someone tell these incels we arent using wooden ships for battle, its called historical preservation.
 
That can't be ****ing true. Naming an aircraft carrier after a foreign born individual who has done nothing for the military?

I'll file this under "I'll believe it when I see it".
 
bomberfox said:
They really dont understand historical preservation do they?
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Ikari said:
That can't be ****ing true. Naming an aircraft carrier after a foreign born individual who has done nothing for the military?

I'll file this under "I'll believe it when I see it".
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Humor and sarcasm are wasted on liberals/socialists/progressives/leftists.

Hint. Read the date on the OP article.
 
Luce said:
Submarines? I'd stop naming them after fish.

"Look what you made me do"
"In one ear"
"Geneva Checklist"
"Who's Counting?"
"Demented but determined."

I like names that imply that these ships are the very last things you want to see showing up due to your behavior.
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Most of our subs are named after cities and states.
 
RaleBulgarian said:
Carter wasn’t just a bubblehead. He was among the first Naval officers personally interviewed/selected by then Captain Rickover, recognized as the “father of the nuclear Navy”, to be part of the Navy’s newest, and world’s most technologically advanced submarine fleet.

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Yep. We actually get a bit of a history lesson in nuclear power school about how Adm Rickover built up the nuclear Navy and it includes some info on President Carter. At least we did when I went through, even if that was before 2000.
 
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