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Congress passed a resolution over a decade ago calling for the next US Navy carrier to be USS Eugene Ely. Instead, the President at the time decided that the next carrier should be named after his own father.
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@mikebrown1926 Certainly a better choice than most instances of warships named after politicians. Though it seems like it was premature to name a carrier after him while he was still alive. It used to be that the US Navy didn't name ships after living people.
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@WALTERBROADDUS Could be worse. They could be the Zumwalt class. Pity that Admiral Zumwalt's name will forever be attached to...that.
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