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UncleBuck -> RE: Goodbye Beautiful Carrier Names (8/19/2004 5:30:52 PM)
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Kitty Hawk
CV-63 29 Apr 1961 Active, Named for the place of the first heavier than air flight.
Constellation
CV-64 27 Oct 1961 Decom. 7 Aug. 2003 Towed 12 September 2003, to be placed in inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash.
Enterprise (Mobile Chernobyl-un-offical nickname)
CVN-65 25 Nov 1961 Active; Named after a long line of USN warships.
America
CV-66 23 Jan 1965 DECOM. 9 Aug 1996 Stricken from Navy List; In the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Philadelphia, Penn. To be scrapped. Named as one of the NEW type carriers, proposed sister ship was United States
John F. Kennedy CV-67 7 Sep 1968 — Active; Named for an Assainated President and former Naval officer.
Nimitz CVN-68 3 May 1975 Active In this Forum I should not have to say a word. This was the first of a new class and the only curreent build class of Nuclear Carrier.
Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 18 Oct 1977 — Active- Ex-President and First Leader of the Cold War. Former CINCSHAEF.
Carl Vinson CVN-70 13 Mar 1982 — Active-Congressman who worked tirelessly to expand and modernize the USN Beginning in the 1930’s. Trivia the CAG Plane on the Chuck Boat is named Ms. Molly for his Secretary. This boat was built during teh Carter administration and was built from spare parts out of the Navy storage yard. I have seen fittings that have the Name Oriskany and Bonhome Richard on them.
Theodore Roosevelt CVN71 25 Oct 1986 — Active- Hero of Spanish American War, and Former Sec. Nav. Also Built the Great White Fleet and was staunch proponent of the Navy..
Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 11 Nov 1989 Active- President during the darkest hours of our Country.
George Washington CVN-73 4 July 1992 Active -First U.S. President, proponent for a Navy, Was President when USN was officially named.
John C. Stennis CVN-74 9 Dec 1995 Active- It was due to his work with the Armed Services committee (1969-1980) that he became known as the "Father of America's Modern Navy."
Harry S. Truman CVN-75 25 July 1998 Active Was the President at the End of WWII. Resisted the drive of Congress to reduce the Navy to what he called an unsafe level.
Ronald Reagan CVN-76 12 July 2003 Active Revived the Military from a very sad state beginning in 1981, was the driving force to increasing the USN from a 187 ship Navy to 500 ship Navy. Introduced many plans to Modernize and truly implement the Volunteer force..
George H. W. Bush CVN-77 To be Built. Ex-President, and former Naval Aviator. Budgeted and proposed the building of the last 6 carriers.
The Tradition of Naming warships for Famous Basttles has been passed to the more numerous Cruiser group. Famous Military Figures are named with Destroyers. I.e. Arliegh Burke class of DDG. Submarines , the Boomers (missle boats) took up for the Battleships as for State Names (Kentucky, New York, Alabama etc.) Attack boats took up the old job of being named for cities, this used ot be Cruiser names- St. Louis, La Jolla, San Diego.
The Army guys do nto usually get named for SHips, but some USNS are named for them, Houge, and Anderson both MPF ships I have been on. The Army guys get stuff like tanks named for them. M1A Abrams Heavy Battle Tank named for General Abrams, The T-48 Patton, the T-26 Pershing, Bradley Fighting Vehicle (he was teh G.I. general so a troop transport) and many other items.
The Airforce is the only branch that I know of that names stuff regularly after animals. They Name War planes after winged hunters for fighters- Falcon, Eagle. The Helocopters are named for Native American (Indian) tribes. UH-1 Iraquois, AH-64 Apache, the Comanche wich got canceled, OH-58 Kiowa, UH-60 Blackhawk, and CH-47 Chinook. These just name a few. On a side note, many people have thier panties in a bunch over these names. I find it very strange that these people are upset since teh U.S> Military has chosen to honor a former foe, with these names. The idea behind this was that the American indians were fierce, strong and noble fighters. They were the best light cavalry in the world at the time. The Helocopter is the modern equivlent of that light cavalry. Anyway. I beleive that the Nameing conventions for the US military are not very political. To gt your name on somehting you had to have done something very important for the service they are naming somehting for you.
Oh and some past things for names brought up. IN ww2 we had a Grant tank named for U.S. Grant, and a sister tank called the Lee. The M-5 tank was named for J.E.B. Stuart General CSA, was one of the best light tanks of teh war, the Brits called them the "Honey". The M-4 Sherman was named for Gen. Sherman of the Civil war, and his push to the sea. So all in all I think the Army gets it's fair share in the community it should.
Oh I forgot, there are a group of Carreir type ships that were named for Battles, that is teh LHA class they were named for famous Marine battles, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima were two that I serviced when I was in the Navy. They are now being replaced by LHD's which are getting the old CV names, The Boxer, and Essex are here in San Diego.
UB
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