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Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 9:50:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		small point..but shouldnt the Midway, Bataan and Tarawa also have the option to be renamed..since they are based on battles fought..that may not be fought?
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 10:01:05 PM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 10:32:47 PM   
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small point..but shouldnt the Midway, Bataan and Tarawa also have the option to be renamed..since they are based on battles fought..that may not be fought?


A mass ton of the CVE's are named after battles as well. And, a crap ton of DD's are named after dead WWII officers/men.

You'd have to allow renaming of all ships or put an II after all ships, if you wanted to rename any ship that might have a WWII historical name.

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 10:42:50 PM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 10:59:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, put a II after the ship's name in the editor. When you then select it in the reinforcement queue, it's name will show yellow and can be changed.

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/27/2010 11:20:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I like renaming them after CVs you have sunk......USS Shokaku really rubs their face in it.

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/28/2010 12:09:34 AM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/28/2010 2:14:16 PM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/28/2010 2:52:47 PM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/28/2010 2:59:22 PM   
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USS Pop Idol and USS Pepsi Max sound good to me.


Miller is being coy here - he actually wants to name his carriers the Lady Gaga and the Anna Kournikova.

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/29/2010 1:33:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Perhaps to keep it realistic you should name unbuilt US carriers after US presidents.  After all there is a CVN Ronnie Regan and also a Dwight D Eisenhower and even a John F Kennedy.
Oddly enough though there don't seem to have been any carriers named after Jimmy Carter, or Richard Nixon,  or Bill Clinton,  or either of the Bushes.  Funny that,  don't you think?

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/29/2010 2:12:28 PM   
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Perhaps to keep it realistic you should name unbuilt US carriers after US presidents.  After all there is a CVN Ronnie Regan and also a Dwight D Eisenhower and even a John F Kennedy.
Oddly enough though there don't seem to have been any carriers named after Jimmy Carter, or Richard Nixon,  or Bill Clinton,  or either of the Bushes.  Funny that,  don't you think?


The crew of this fine lady must be horribly confused then:

http://up-www01.ffc.navy.mil/cvn77/

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/29/2010 2:18:52 PM   
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Perhaps to keep it realistic you should name unbuilt US carriers after US presidents.  After all there is a CVN Ronnie Regan and also a Dwight D Eisenhower and even a John F Kennedy.
Oddly enough though there don't seem to have been any carriers named after Jimmy Carter, or Richard Nixon,  or Bill Clinton,  or either of the Bushes.  Funny that,  don't you think?


Oh, also forgot, Jimmy Carter got a Seawolf-class submarine. Fitting, as he was a nuclear-trained submarine officer.

http://www.navysite.de/ssn/ssn23.htm

USS JFK has been decommissioned. http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cv67.htm

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 1/29/2010 2:40:57 PM   
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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/1/2010 1:43:44 PM   
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Sorry that the JFK has been decommissioned, is it going to be scrapped, mothballed, sold to the Chinese or what?

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/1/2010 3:03:14 PM   
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Perhaps to keep it realistic you should name unbuilt US carriers after US presidents.  After all there is a CVN Ronnie Regan and also a Dwight D Eisenhower and even a John F Kennedy.
Oddly enough though there don't seem to have been any carriers named after Jimmy Carter, or Richard Nixon,  or Bill Clinton,  or either of the Bushes.  Funny that,  don't you think?


Actually, that was a relatively new process. Even though Rompin' Rosey was named after FDR, most of the rest until CV67 followed the principal of famous ships or battles (except of course, CV59 - Forrestal.) Personally, naming the CVs after presidents is crass, at best, and a political ploy, which means it's not only crass, but pragmatic. So much for 200 years of tradition unhampered by progress.


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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 12:17:06 AM   
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Perhaps to keep it realistic you should name unbuilt US carriers after US presidents.  After all there is a CVN Ronnie Regan and also a Dwight D Eisenhower and even a John F Kennedy.
Oddly enough though there don't seem to have been any carriers named after Jimmy Carter, or Richard Nixon,  or Bill Clinton,  or either of the Bushes.  Funny that,  don't you think?


Actually, that was a relatively new process. Even though Rompin' Rosey was named after FDR, most of the rest until CV67 followed the principal of famous ships or battles (except of course, CV59 - Forrestal.) Personally, naming the CVs after presidents is crass, at best, and a political ploy, which means it's not only crass, but pragmatic. So much for 200 years of tradition unhampered by progress.



/agree

Naming a ship after someone who is alive is very lame, in addition to the other reason's you've listed. Pretty soon support ships will be named after senators, congresspersons and govenors.

Lame lame lame. Bring back the cool historic ship names.

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 2:50:13 AM   
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Naming a ship after someone who is alive is very lame, in addition to the other reason's you've listed. Pretty soon support ships will be named after senators, congresspersons and govenors.

Lame lame lame. Bring back the cool historic ship names.


There have been lots and lots of real, front-line combat ships,. even CVNs, named for congresscritters.
As Adm. Rickover said when they stopped naming SSNs after sea life: "Fish don't vote."



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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 3:15:23 AM   
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Naming a ship after someone who is alive is very lame, in addition to the other reason's you've listed. Pretty soon support ships will be named after senators, congresspersons and govenors.

Lame lame lame. Bring back the cool historic ship names.


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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 5:17:25 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Miller
USS Pop Idol and USS Pepsi Max sound good to me.


Miller is being coy here - he actually wants to name his carriers the Lady Gaga and the Anna Kournikova.

Are those the ones with the prominent sonar bubbles under the hull?

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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 5:34:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Frankly I think that the naming rights of ships should be sold to corporations to help pay for the budget! I want to see the USS Mountain Dew! :)

Sadly, how far away are we from doing that?


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RE: Renaming US Carriers - 2/2/2010 1:25:26 PM   
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Actually, that was a relatively new process. Even though Rompin' Rosey was named after FDR, most of the rest until CV67 followed the principal of famous ships or battles (except of course, CV59 - Forrestal.) Personally, naming the CVs after presidents is crass, at best, and a political ploy, which means it's not only crass, but pragmatic. So much for 200 years of tradition unhampered by progress.



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Naming a ship after someone who is alive is very lame, in addition to the other reason's you've listed. Pretty soon support ships will be named after senators, congresspersons and govenors.


Other than the super-carrier 'Carl Vinson'. I think somebody there was determined to make sure history remembered him...

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