UT grad takes command of a carrier
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I was in Oklahoma and Germany. I played with cannons and rockets. Went down range to Balkans in 99. I only did 4 years and got out as E5.
Yeah my first unit fielded the A6 and first green cycle was qualifying with those. Nothing like the rush I got from being 19 and giving order to fire a TOT battalion 1! I was reading up recently on the A7 under development. You should look that bad boy up. I also was part of the unit who helped form the doctrine on crusader that ended up never being. Still got my army mug with it on there.
Guy has a lot of different things named after him. Was a long time senator. I think there are other carriers not named after presidents too... Going to look that up though.
Active named for other than POTUS' we have:
Nimitz
Carl Vinson
Steins
Enterprise (2027 launch date)
Doris Miller (2030) Hero from Pearl Harbor
And a TBA (2034)
For additional context from the previous message the Secretary of the Navy gets to assign the names. Most of the recent ones have been for presidents but that’s not a rule. If you go back far enough most of them are actually named for battles. The other main exception would be for military heroes.
I have actually been to the Nimitz so not sure why I didn’t think of that off the cuff.
The Marine Helo carriers are named for key Marine battles.
And off on a tangent, my friend, Medal of HOnor receipent Hershel "Woody" Williams recently had the ESB 4/USS Hershel "Woody"Williams named for him.
I am sick I could not attend the boat's launch.
I do have both the ship's coin and the ship's Emerald Shellback coin (crossing the equator at the prime meridian), they did an around the world cruise for their 1st deployment.
The Marine Helo carriers are named for key Marine battles.
And off on a tangent, my friend, Medal of HOnor receipent Hershel "Woody" Williams recently had the ESB 4/USS Hershel "Woody"Williams named for him.
I am sick I could not attend the boat's launch.
I do have both the ship's coin and the ship's Emerald Shellback coin (crossing the equator at the prime meridian), they did an around the world cruise for their 1st deployment.
Small world I suppose. I met Woody back in 2018 when I went to the Army Navy game. My brother is a USMA grad and played there. I am a former active duty Marine. I got to talk to Woody very briefly which was awesome. My whole family is full of Marines so that was a real treat. I must have read his award citation 100s of times because it was on the wall in our battalion HQ when I was on active duty.
Which battalion? My nephew graduated a year ago from Sandy Eggo and is about to deploy with 3/5
Honored to know Woody, working on one of his Gold Star family monuments, almost done.
Added you to our OB vets list.
Semper Fi
I flew phroggs back in the day.
Lil bro is Chief of Staff at Quantico, has 3 years left.
That is awesome. congrats and hook 'em to him. UT just had a general named in the Air Force Reserve also, Preston McFarren. These are tremendously honorable and dedicated people.
I have been doing a lot of soul-searching through this painful time for our country -- how do we rekindle some sort of commonality as a nation? I keep coming back to a 2-year mandatory national service. Could be military, teaching, national parks, peace corps (and many more). It would help to (re?)instill a sense of common purpose, discipline and duty. Maybe I am just getting daffy....
Congrats to these fine men and I am grateful for their service. Hook 'em and God bless.
I was in from 2005-2010. Spent most of my time with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. I went TAD for a deployment in 2008 to Afghanistan with 2/7. Then again in 2009 with 1st CEB to Afghanistan again.
Semper Fi
Did 5 months in Guantanamo Bay in 95 and did 12 months in Iraq 08-09.
I got that fun summer tour in 99 going from Germany to Albania to Macedonia to Kosovo to Macedonia to Germany. We went on alert for Iraq few times. And we was on lockdown and alert after African embassy bombings in 98, nothing like figuring out who was the least drunk to go on guard duty......
He is just a lurker on Orangebloods, but @58horn was the number two on the USS John F Kennedy in the 70’s. He a badass and my FIL.
Got my curiosity up. According to the almighty Google, the US carriers are
- Ford
- Nimitz
- Eisenhower
- Vinson
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Lincoln
- Washington
- Stennis
- Truman
- Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- JFK*
- Enterprise*
- Doris Miller**
- TBD**
*Undergoing sea trials
**On order
So all but 4 of 15 named for presidents with one name TBD. Of the 4, Vinson was a Congressman, Stennis a Senator, our fellow Texan Nimitz was of course an Admiral in WWII, and Miller (another Texan) was a hero at Pearl Harbor who was later KIA in WWI - also first African American to win the Navy Cross.
We have a number of helicopter carriers but none of those are named for people.
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I started out at Hood and the was in Germany, (Baumholder) for 5 yrs. I loved the Howitzer. The A6 was a kick ass machine. I went into the ADA (patriot)for another 5 yrs which was not a good idea looking back at things. In my mind I’ll always be a redleg soldier.
I made a trip to Baumholder for training exercise first year in Germany when we supported 1st AD. My buddy was divarty in 1st AD. And we had some duck hunters moved into our kaserne the second year in Germany. Dummies almost tripped a mine that some dirt bag brought bag and put in their locker room in motor pool.
I wish I would have enlisted right after dental school. Would have gone in as an officer plus if you served 5 years they would pay off your dental school student loans. They were needing dentists badly back then. My father, a former Marine, talked me out of it of all people. I had a couple of classmates who did. One became an Oral Surgeon on the Navy’s dime.
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