Author Topic: USS Jimmy Carter (Read 1149 times)

Nefarious · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2005, 11:26:31 PM »

Reagan was in the Navy too, thats why he got his boat.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 19, 2005, 11:30:53 PM »

Someone in the navy still has a HUGE sense of humour.

I wonder if Jimmy is proud or pissed off.

Yeager · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2005, 01:32:13 AM »

proud and jimmy carter are mutually exclusive.

carter makes wee willy clinton look like a WAR HERO (puke)

rpm · « **Reply #18 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:04:18 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
proud and jimmy carter are mutually exclusive.

carter makes wee willy clinton look like a WAR HERO (puke)

You obviously don't know anything about Carter's Naval service. He was hand picked by Rickover. Not a small statement.

Yeager · « **Reply #19 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:24:48 AM »

oh my.....CARTER IS HIMMLER!!!!!!!!OH JEEBUS!!!!

Chairboy · « **Reply #20 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:51:09 AM »

Yeager, are you mixing medications? Just because you think someone is a poor president doesn't mean that every other aspect of their life must be cat crap too. Rickover was the ultimate navy hardass. He demanded perfection, and got it. He was a real jerk, too, but he's the reason we haven't lost a nuke sub since the Scorpion. Compare that with the Soviet/Russian safety record, and you might realize just how big a feat that is, and just how unforgiving the depths are.

Raider179 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 20, 2005, 03:24:46 AM »

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The Virginia class isn't quite a dinosaur the way the Seawolf could be, it's designed to operate in littoral waters, a capability that makes it useful against a wide variety of threats.

It's a lot cheaper, too, made with many COTS components.

yep it is cheaper by a billion. Billions just dont stretch like they used to. lol

At a procurement rate of 1 boat per year, Virginia-class SSNs cost about $1.9 billion to $2.0 billion per boat to procure. This cost might decline to about $1.8 billion per boat at a procurement rate of 2 boats per year or $1.6-$1.7 billion per boat at a procurement rate of 3 or 4 boats per year

jimmy carter--- The Navy does not acknowledge that the $3.2 billion submarine...

midnight Target · « **Reply #22 on:** February 21, 2005, 10:34:52 AM »

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I don't think any ATCer's have new equipment named/dedicated to Ronald Reagan.

Carter was the worst president in modern history.

So you start "modern history" sometime after 1974?

Sandman · « **Reply #23 on:** February 21, 2005, 10:48:10 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy

It's a lot cheaper, too, made with many COTS components.

Possibly, but as far as the U.S. military is concerned, there's no such thing as COTS. We always modify.

Suave · « **Reply #24 on:** February 21, 2005, 10:53:42 AM »

Carter is a geniune, honest, straight shooting, 98th percentile IQ guy. And he was a hell of a sailor and an officer.

No wonder he's considered a failure in american politics.

To those of you who chose to deride him because you can't get past your brand loyalty. Why don't you write a letter to any of the enlisted founding members of Delta, the detatchment not the airline, and ask them what their opinion of President Carter is.

storch · « **Reply #25 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:06:53 AM »

The five worst presidents in recent history are:

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Trumann
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Billy Jeff

I think the worst of all was LBJ.

Suave · « **Reply #26 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:15:13 AM »

Nixon was probably the worst, total and complete abuse of power for his own egotistic purposes. There are people who he would've liked to have seen dead who are working in the whitehouse today, most prominently Rumsfield.

Suave · « **Reply #27 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:18:47 AM »

I'd like to add that JFK expressed a Weltbild that I whole heartedly embrace. The exact prose escapes me, but something about exterminating oppression.

Sandman · « **Reply #28 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:18:48 AM »

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Originally posted by storch
The five worst presidents in recent history are:

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Trumann
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Billy Jeff

I think the worst of all was LBJ.

Anyone but Bush?

Toad · « **Reply #29 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:21:09 AM »

I was in under Carter.

Maintenance, supplies and even fuel were so short that we had to do...literally......... illegal things to get the necessary stuff to fly NSA directed reconnaissance missions.

I got out because of Carter.

I don't hate him or anything but....... good President? Not from my vantage point.

Name a sub after him? Sure.. he did after all rise to the Presidency. Not many folks can say that. But just don't pretend he was somehow "good" for the military. That'd be a joke.