Carrier named after the first President Bush

NORFOLK, Va. – President George W. Bush landed Saturday on the USS George H.W. Bush, a new aircraft carrier named after his father — the ultimate honor for a decorated Navy pilot from World War II.
"So what do you give a guy who has been blessed and has just about everything he has ever needed?" the president asked the estimated 20,000 gathered for the commissioning at Naval Station Norfolk. "Well, an aircraft carrier."

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It's a great honor to have a carrier named after ones self. Not too many people can say that! How can you top that? I just wish that the USN would go back to naming vessels the way they used to back in WW2. Carriers after famous ships and battles, battleships after states, cruisers after cities, and destroyers after naval personell KIA. I know that the day of the battleship is gone, and they ran out of fish to name subs after, it's just that the politicians have gone above and beyond in this "naming things" after themselves these days. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking George Bush 41 in any way, shape or form. I guess that I am a still a tradionalist at heart. God bless USS GHWB!

 

Russia has on the slips to be launched in 2011 the Krasnoie Rabbi.

 

If the recent pirate problem and recent wars have taught us anything, it's that we should still have some vessels now considered obsolete. The US should have in it's fleet a battleship, a couple of jeep carriers (with prop planes & helicopters), half a dozen Fletcher class destroyers, and some heavily armed high speed PT type boats.

Our navy is something to be proud of, it's vessels more modern and powerful than anyone else's, but not all of our enemies are going to be blue ocean navy types.

 

I'm not all that much into naming ships after people. Liked it better when they were named after battles but I guess with the number of ships being more than the number of battles, they had to do something.

 

My country only names its frigates after cities. Submarines after well know towns and destroyers after Native tribes. Can you guess which country I am from?......................Canada!!! A proud US Allie (not in Iraq but Afghanistan)

 

Personally, I do not think ships should be named after politicians, unless they are already dead. I do not like George Bush and I think there are more deserving people for US military vessels to be named after than him. The only argument I can see for naming a ship after George Bush, is that he was a president, well so what, I don't think he was a very good one. There e.g. is a US warship named after another politician, the Winston Churchill but he since he was both a great man and is also deceased I have no problem with that.

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Adrian Wainer

 

Yes I particularly respect the Canadian Navy's practice of naming vessels after first nation tribes, the first nations are known for their skill in battle and this Canadian heritage should be remembered and celebrated as Canada and other Western Countries face the global Islamofascist threat.

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Adrian Wainer

 

did this one have mission accomplished plastered on the flightdeck?,cheers.

 

Roll on the future.....When we can gladly name our vessels after various X Factor and Pop Idol winners...

Britains 2 new carriers....they will be new when built....just keep getting put back on slips every few years...are already named...Image and Nation.

And you have to have a good one to believe they will ever be built.

Havn't all US presidents had a ship named after them though? Or am I wrong?

I'm likely wrong I suppose.

 

lets get down to it ..............do you think Bush really cares, it would be the same if a street was named after him. thanks but no thanks

 

Yes, but if all other presidents have had one named after them then he should be no different. Politics doesnt come into it, its more like tradition...sort of....If you've been the commander in chief, then its got to be the right thing to do.

 

Nice try, throwing in a bit of an America hating Jab but you got the wrong Bush.

Here is the current naming system of US warships

[edit] Modern conventions

• Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines were named after states except for one.
• Attack submarines were named after cities, fish and states.
• Aircraft carriers were named after admirals and politicians, usually presidents.
• Nuclear-powered cruisers, or the nuclear-powered equivalent, were named after states.
• Other cruisers were named after battles.
• Destroyers and frigates retained their traditional naming conventions.
• Amphibious vessels were named after famous Marine Corps battles, cities, famous ships or geographic features.
• Ammunition Ships were named after volcanoes.

 

Well, considering the overall size of the RN, two large carriers make no sense at all. Furthermore, if one gets disabled or sunk during a conflict, if the other carrier is undergoing heavy maintenance that will leave the RN with no fixed wing fleet capability whatsoever. The logical choice, would have been three new carriers using the STOVL version of the JSF in a somewhat enlarged new design, based on the present invincible class light carrier. Given the way politics are heading in Europe, by the time the proposed large carriers are in service, it was not surprise me if they were named King Edward VIII and Sir Oswald Mosley and committed as part of the Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's contribution to the Islamic European Union Single Fascist State standing force Atlantic.

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Adrian Wainer

 

God bless em and all who sail in em....

 

Now about those trident thingy's,,,,sorry hijacking thread...I'll stop now.

 

Well I am sure, some folks in the South argued that keeping slaves was like traditional, so no damm Yankees or anyone else was going to stop them doin it.

YouTube - Royal Navy commemorating the abolition of slavery

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Adrian Wainer

 

George Bush the first owned slaves? Surely some mistake....sure they weren't just illegal cleaners? Thats a sort of tradition too...

 

Well, I'm easily bought...I'm off round carreers information office first thing tomorrow..I want to fight slavery...suppose that means they will make me a cook...