A Carrier Named Stennis
That’s Stennis as in John C. of Mississippi. An Aircraft Carrier as in a really big ship that cost $4.5 Billion in 1995. John C. Stennis was a renowned segregationist who rose to power in the US Senate on the basis of seniority which means that he was very popular in Mississippi; US Senate from 1947-1989. Senator Stennis was always generous with northern states’ money when it came to the Defense Department Budgets. Never met an aircraft, tank, or ship that he wasn’t in favor of; sort of Mississippi’s entitle. So it isn’t surprising to learn that the Navy named a Carrier after him; excepting for the segregationist part, that is.
Modern US Navy Aircraft Carriers are huge and powerful. The Stennis is more than 1,000 feet long, displaces (weighs) more than 115,000 tons, and is very powerful. With 260,000 shaft horsepower she has a top speed around 40 knots; she can throw a rooster tail. Just guessing, I would say that each of her 4 screws is about 27 feet in diameter and that at full speed there is 2 and 1/2 turns torque in her number two shaft. US Navy Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers were once designated CVA(N)s. The A stood for Attack. Now CVNs without the A, attacks in faraway places is still what they are built for. They go all around the world, are known by their names, are seen by millions in faraway places. At any given time, some 3,000 sailors have the Carrier’s name on a shoulder.
Mississippi is in the process of changing her state flag because of the old flag’s racial connotations. The US Navy needs to change the name of the USS John C. Stennis to something more in-tune with the 21st Century.
Who cares.
If the USS John C Stennis aircraft carrier is indeed a reminder of the racism of the past in the United States then renaming it is not good enough.
It would remain the aircraft carrier that was originally named the USS John C Stennis. We must completely remove this abomination!
It will have to be hauled out of the water and stored in a warehouse until it can be placed in a museum or cut up for scrap.
The taxpayers will have to pay for its replacement!
And every contractor or subcontractor should be forced to take an oath that no part of the original John C Stennis aircraft carrier was used in the construction of its replacement.
One can not be too careful about these things. Purity has become our current guiding light.
Sarcasm off.
We seem to be proceeding down the road which China took with its Cultural revolution from 1966 to 1976. We already have our version of the Red Guards when they were formed. With time, ours could be just as efficient at ruining the lives of Americans as the Red Guards ever were in ruining the lives of Chinese.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
I shudder when I think of what my great grandchildren will think of us. I know what I think of Mao and his enforcers.
Jim, China was a backward hole before Mao. The damage done to China?? When, in 1850’s when the bourgeois and It’s emperor watched 60 million people die??? It made the great leap forward look like a picnic. The cultural revolution created modern day China because it unified power. Your thinking of The wrong example. But dips like you are mentally retarded.
Re-naming a battleship. O the horror! Civilization is falling to such shameful devotion to purity. All the lives ruined is unimaginable!
Aircraft Carrier
‘Senator Stennis was always generous with northern states’ money when it came to the Defense Department Budgets. Never met an aircraft, tank, or ship that he wasn’t in favor of; sort of Mississippi’s entitle. So it isn’t surprising to learn that the Navy named a Carrier after him’
That pretty much says it all.
Maybe rename it for George Wallace?
Hee hee
The Chinese Communist Party’s position on the Cultural Revolution has been to condemn it and to condemn Mao for it.
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On June 27, 1981, the Central Committee adopted the “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China,” an official assessment of major historical events since 1949.[250]
The Resolution frankly noted Mao’s leadership role in the movement, stating that “chief responsibility for the grave ‘Left’ error of the ‘Cultural Revolution,’ an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration, does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong.”
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
When Stennis, a devout Christian, got to the Gate and handed Peter his entry ticket; Peter took a quick look and told Steenis that the ticket wasn’t valid.
Imagine some future day when there
will be a carrier named ‘Trump’, with
a fleet of escort ships named for his
cohorts: Barr, McConnell, Graham,
Haley, Giuliani, Meadows, Conway.
I see McConnell as a barge.