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Offline Cincinnatus

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Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« on: March 26, 2013, 06:54:35 pm »
The Navy’s newest ship will be the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
 
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the announcement at a Pentagon ceremony today, calling Giffords someone whose name is synonymous with courage...

The ship named today for her, which has yet to be built, will be the Navy’s 10th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a new kind of ship designed to bring the Navy fighting power into shallow coastal areas.  The first two ships in this class were called Freedom and Independence, but the conventional practice since then has been to name the other ships in the class after a city.
 
“It’s very appropriate that LCS 10 be named for someone who has become synonymous with courage, who has inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit,” said Mabus.
 
Mabus said the notion occurred to him that this would be a “fitting tribute” not only to Giffords but to Navy families because she was a Navy spouse.  Her husband, Mark Kelly, was until recently an astronaut and Navy pilot.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/navy-announces-uss-gabrielle-giffords/
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 07:03:34 pm »
In spite of the shameless and disgusting political pandering involved here, I suppose I ought to refrain from making a graphic comparison between this ship and the U.S.S. Cole.
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 07:07:29 pm »
She was shot in the head and survived. That makes her courageous? I'm sure a few thousand other shot-in-the-head-and-survived folks are wondering why they're so ignored - especially those who were wounded in military service.
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 07:09:14 pm »
One wag has already asked if the ship will be armed.
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2013, 06:15:31 pm »
Quote from: Cincinnatus on March 26, 2013, 07:09:14 pm
One wag has already asked if the ship will be armed.

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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2013, 05:17:38 pm »
I see it's an LCS. Maybe they can name one of the copters after her husband. He was an astronaut, you know.  :whistle:
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2013, 06:22:47 pm »
So incredibly sad for our sailors, SEALs, naval and marine aviators.  Makes me want to cry in shame for those who died unremembered.
(PS Mark Kelly is an a*****e -- an embarrassment to every USNA graduate out there)
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2013, 09:37:47 pm »
Sad, just sad.
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Re: Navy Announces USS Gabrielle Giffords
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2013, 10:06:40 pm »
The DEAD Navy Seal is Texas would have been a much more appropriate person to name a ship after.
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