They Will Name A Ship After Anyone These Days
October 8th, 2006 by Bob Schwartz
Not that George Sr. was a bad president but how does a one term president who pretty much got elected on his former boss, Ronald Reagan’s coattails, and whose legacy includes doing only half the job in Iraq in 1991 and not much else rate getting one of the US’s most feared warships, a Nimitz class carrier, named after him?
What’s next the USS Jimmy Carter?
USS Jimmy Carter
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class submarine, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for former President Jimmy Carter, who served in the US Navy as an officer in the Submarine Service as a nuclear engineer. Jimmy Carter is one of the few ships of the United States Navy to have been named for a person who was alive at the time of the ship’s naming. Carter was christened on 5 June 2004 sponsored by Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter’s wife.
So I guess they will name a ship or in this case a sub after anyone…