Re: Three More Virginia-class Submarines Named

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:09:29 -0800 (PST), lein
<boomer_the_cat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 31, 12:02 pm, "David V. Loewe, Jr" <davelo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11652

USS Missouri - SSN-780
USS California - SSN-781
USS Mississippi - SSN-782

I miss the old days when only battleships were named for States, heavy
cruisers for large cities, light cruisers for smaller cities,
destroyers for people, submarines for fish/odd ball stuff, and for the
most part, battles for CVs.

We now have cruisers (USS Virginia)

Cruisers named for states have gone the way of ships-of-the-line. The
current USS Virginia is a submarine.

and subs named for states, it just isn't right.
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