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    Posted: 24-Jan-2008 at 19:28

I was very amused to learn that the last Nimitz-class supercarrier (The 10th) will be named USS Geroge H. W. Bush (CVN-77). It's just something to note.

 


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When is the last Nimitz planned to be replaced by the new super carriers?
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The Bush was christened, IIRC, a little over a year ago. It is a transitional vessel between Nimitz-class and Twenty-first Century-class, which is as yet unnamed. Does the Navy refer to them as "supercarriers?"

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Why is this amusing?




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A lot of people wanted this ship to be named USS Enterprise, after the carrier it is replacing.  I guess carrier names will be named after Presidents. 

To answer your question, at more than 100,000 tons this ship is a super carrier. 
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A majority of the carriers are named after important men....in the 60's they started naming them almost automatically after Presidents with few exceptions...The Nimitz, The Carl Vinson and The John C Stennis are the left socks in the past 40 years.
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single termers getting carriers now. What is the US Navy coming to.
 
 
 
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He got it for being a navy pilot more than anything.
 
And Paul, Jimmy Carter also got a ship, a nuke sub.
 
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My mistake.  It is the USS Gerald Ford that will be replacing the USS Enterprise. This is the follow on class to the Nimitz carriers. 
 
Jimmy Carter was the only President qualified to captain a Submarine.  Makes sense.  Either that or the Navy did not like him enough to name a carrier for him. 
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lol can someone imagine the USS G.W. Bush? (a very specific type of ship that attacks without being ordered to do so and that is absolutely unable to send a plane in the air straight).
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Originally posted by jacobtowne

The Bush was christened, IIRC, a little over a year ago. It is a transitional vessel between Nimitz-class and Twenty-first Century-class, which is as yet unnamed. Does the Navy refer to them as "supercarriers?"

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Why is this amusing?


 
The anti-American movements will see this carrier as a trophy. Let's just hope that this cruiser don't end up being stationed in the Gulf of Persia...
     
   
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Originally posted by Ragozy

A majority of the carriers are named after important men....in the 60's they started naming them almost automatically after Presidents with few exceptions...The Nimitz, The Carl Vinson and The John C Stennis are the left socks in the past 40 years.

 
Yeah, they have become a substitute for monuments.  I disagree with such ego-pumping, and I wish the navy would go back to the original USS names from the first frigates:
 
Constellation
President
Congress
Hornet (former US carrier WW II)
Wasp   (former US carrier WW II) 
 
and so on....other old USS names would be cool, like Kearsarge and Marblehead.
 
Constitution is still in commission as a historic relic in Boston.
 
No one in the street even remembers who John Stennis was, let alone Carl Vinson or James Forrestal.  I think it is stupid.
 
 


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