Originally Posted by Idaho_Shooter
I stumbled across this tidbit. I thought it interesting.

Gerald R Ford class AC Carrier. Scheduled to be laid down 2026, and commissioned in 2030.

First carrier ever named for an enlisted man, or for a black man.

I would have named it Donald.


name fighting ships for fighting men.....


Originally Posted by Cook Third Class Doris Miller's Navy Cross Citation
CITATION: "For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge."

Originally Posted by jorgeI
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....