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USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 5:06:15 AM   
Black Mamba 1942


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Status: offline 		Good idea, or bad idea, to name a US Navy ship after a foreigner?

A Virginia class submarine.
Maybe the USS Diana Spencer, or Lady Spencer would be better.
Who knows what kind of crew could get posted on a ship named after a princess.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 5:13:17 AM   
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http://www.churchill.navy.mil/

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 5:15:03 AM   
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You mean, like the USS Winston S Churchill?

http://www.churchill.navy.mil/




That's probably the only other vessel not named after an American.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 5:39:16 AM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 5:45:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I dunno. Ya gotta be careful naming a US Navy ship after Di. If ya send 'er to the Middle East, she scuttles the Prince of Wales and winds up in bed with an oil prince, and then, she's always goin' down on ya...

Besides, she would always be subject to the fatal effects of the Benz...

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 6:01:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Black Mamba 1942

That's probably the only other vessel not named after an American.



The first vessel commissioned in the U.S. Navy was named after an English monarch... Alfred the Great

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 6:12:22 AM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 6:24:08 AM   
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Who knows what kind of crew could get posted on a ship named after a princess.


Sailors are more than capable of making new trouble where there shouldn't be otherwise.

Case: The USS Puget Sound (classified as a non-combatant) receives an unofficial nickname: the "Pubic Mound" due to having female service members as part of the crew.

edit: I gotta work on my communication skills. My point was that sailors are going to find ways to make trouble for themselves no matter what, so there is little point in making national policy based on avoiding that trouble.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 6:27:09 AM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 6:39:32 AM   
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This a joke? Or are they realy Naming a ship in the US navy after her?

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 7:41:48 AM   
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A Virginia class submarine.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 8:01:38 AM   
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"Think of the positives," urged Andrew Woolhouse, Director of Citizens Against Landmines, Poverty, and Social Disenfranchisement. "Consider the moral effect on the enemy when one of their warships is sunk by the Princess Diana."


Rather a good one actually..





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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 8:06:06 AM   
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Good idea, or bad idea, to name a US Navy ship after a foreigner?

A Virginia class submarine.
Maybe the USS Diana Spencer, or Lady Spencer would be better.
Who knows what kind of crew could get posted on a ship named after a princess.


But Why God???...............even Prince Charles has done more for the US than she did. Heck I would even settle for the USS Tony Blair. You must admit it has a certain ring to it.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 8:09:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Hertston

Phwew.... just checked the date of the original BBC story. Guess what...


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"Think of the positives," urged Andrew Woolhouse, Director of Citizens Against Landmines, Poverty, and Social Disenfranchisement. "Consider the moral effect on the enemy when one of their warships is sunk by the Princess Diana."


Rather a good one actually..




and at the bottom below the story, just under the 'e-mail a friend'...

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 8:41:52 AM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 8:48:28 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Black Mamba 1942

That's probably the only other vessel not named after an American.



The first vessel commissioned in the U.S. Navy was named after an English monarch... Alfred the Great



Being British is irrelevant ,

I find it hard to believe the US Navy has decided on Princess Diana as most deserving and appropriate.

What is it that I am missing that Princess Diana is deserving of such a honor.




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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 9:27:09 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Sarge
I find it hard to believe the US Navy has decided on Princess Diana as most deserving and appropriate.

What is it that I am missing that Princess Diana is deserving of such a honor.

(hey, stud, c'mon over here, let me buy you a cold one. See, it's a joke, an April Fool's joke...)

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 9:44:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't think she would like it anyway....being a staunch advocate of peace.

I don't know what she did to deserve it. Britain has this big thing about Diana. I personally saw her interview on the BBC and I thought she was acting up to the camera. I'm sure wrongs were done to her...but in the big light of day, there are hundreds of thousands of people still living in squaler and poverty in the UK - I think the wrongs done to them are more in need of attention.

I didn't dislike the woman....I just saw her manipulating the camera, the public and the interviewee on that BBC documentary.

My opinion.

On a lighter note, the USS Matrix...I theink they've done more for the wargaming community than Princess Diana did for anyone else.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 12:14:12 PM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 1:52:24 PM   
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Thought I'd share this little jem.

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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 2:00:58 PM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 4:45:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Black Mamba 1942

A very good April Fools joke.

Thought I'd share this little jem.


I knew I sould have done some digging



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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/22/2006 11:17:55 PM   
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RE: USS Princess Diana - 4/23/2006 1:53:47 AM   
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Maybe she would like a mine sweeper named after her after all of her work regarding land mines.

...and maybe the best class of ship would be a minelayer after all her work ... well, you know...

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