From: adam flinton 

Jeff Shultz wrote:
> adam flinton wrote:
>
>
>>Jeff Shultz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Why? Only republican presidents? No USS Jimmy Carter &
no USS William
>>>>Clinton...
>>>>
>>>
>>>Jimmy Carter, a former Navy submariner, will have the 3rd (I think) of
>>>the Seawolf class subs named after him. Clinton did nothing worthy of
>>>naming one after him, the draft dodger.
>>>
>>
>>Like the present President you mean? Democrats get scholarships to
>>Oxford & republicans get daddy to fix em up a nice quiet bit of national
>>guard/reserve duty?
>>
>>What did HW Bush do?
>>
>
> Served in the Texas Air National Guard. Which incidently, did have a
> purpose in life.  And unlike the casualty statistics for Rhodes Scholars
> in Moscow, Air Force pilot training is definitely not a safe profession.
>

Safer than being enlisted & shipped to SE Asian jungles I reckon.


> However, unless HW Bush does something significant for the Navy or comes
> off as one of the great leaders of our time (I happen to like him, but
> "great leaders of our time" is doubtful), he won't get a carrier named
> after him either. I suspect that after he's out of office, if he hasn't
> disgraced himself with any interns or such, he'll probably get something
> in the Texas Air National Guard structure re-named after him. As much as a
> base, as little as a significant building.

Seems a little falacious to me. Is that Senator from Arizona who was shot
down & captured over N. Vietnam going to get a ship?

The other way "doing things for the navy" strikes me as even
worse as it is in effect buying a shipnaming with taxpayer's money


Adam

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