Navy to Commission Attack Submarine Jimmy Carter

[clydefrand]

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=17111

Special release from the U.S. Department of Defense

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will commission its newest nuclear-powered attack submarine Jimmy Carter on Saturday, Feb. 19, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Conn.

The attack submarine Jimmy Carter honors the 39th president of the United States.


I'm glad to hear this about President Carter.

Sorry if this a dupe.

[DaCheat]

1. Kind of Ironic?

They should have commisioned an embassy or something after him, not an attack submarine. Meh, if it makes him happy...

[Dob Bole]

3. He was in the navy..

so it makes sense, I guess.

[CottonBear]

5. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy

and a nuclear engineer who served in the Navy for (I think this is right) over a decade. He was a submariner. It's very appropriate.
Congrats to President Carter. He is a great man who is doing wonderful work in his role as a former president.

[11 Bravo]

7. He's an Annapolis grad who served on nuclear submarines.

I fail to discern the irony.

[DaCheat]

8. Well, he DID win the Nobel Peace Prize

Other than that and his massive progress towards Middle East peace, I can see nothing wrong with commisioning a nuclear submarine that will be equiped with nuclear missles on board. You know, nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like an attack submarine.

[hootinholler]

10. Interesting...

Is this a new Sub Class? Did we start using people again? This is the first attack sub I've heard of named for a person.

As to nukular weapons on board, "I can neither confirm or deny the existence of nuclear weapons on this submarine."

-Hoot

For the SS among us: "There are men working in the sail. Do not raise, lower, rotate or radiate from any mast or antenna. There are men working in the sail."

[Turbineguy]

2. Cool! n/t

[Itascapark]

4. Ah, the wit and wisdom

of the US military. *sign*

[latteromden]

6. I can't stop laughing about "attack submarine Jimmy Carter"!

I don't know why it's so funny.

[Bake]

9. I'm sure Pres. Carter will be HONORED by it. As he should be.

A previous poster was trying to make the point of the irony between naming a WEAPON after a man of peace. Pres. Carter would understand, as many of us do, the tension between being a peacemaker and having a strong military.

Bake

[Placebo]

11. This is too cool!

Even cooler because Carter was a submariner. :D