Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "USS Montana - Guide 118" video.

@mrspeigle1 At least not a politician who hasn't been dead for at least 50 years. I don't mind USS George Washington or USS Abraham Lincoln, but USS Gabby Giffords is absolutely obscene, and so many of these other ones just reek of cronyism - Senator so-and-so introduced a bill giving a hefty budget increase to the Navy, so he gets a ship kind of nonsense. If they've been dead 50 years, nobody will remember how they voted on the "Buy the Navy Cool New Toys Act", and they won't get a ship. In general, I'm against naming ships after people who aren't (1) Medal of Honor recipients from the Navy or Marine Corps, (2) important and non-partisanly popular people in American history - Ben Franklin rates a ship, Cesar Chavez does not, (3) influential Navy officers - I have no problem with Chester Nimitz having a ship named for him. An exception can also be made for presidents who served in the Navy. USS Jimmy Carter is an appropriate name for a submarine - Carter was a submariner, and USS George H.W. Bush is an appropriate name for a carrier, as Bush was a Naval aviator. I also don't like the place names for ships. The British names are awesome, as far as I know, only the USS Intrepid has been given a truly solid name by the US Navy.
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@mrspeigle1 Enterprise is a great name because of the ships that previously bore it. In and of itself, it's better than most American ship names, but not nearly as good as most British ones. But I think there have been 12 ships named USS Enterprise dating back to the Revolution, and including CV-6, the original carrier named Enterprise and the most decorated ship in US Naval history.
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@joeclaridy Carl Vinson and John C. Stennis are reasonable names for ships, but for a carrier? I don't think it's reasonable. Give them destroyers or something. I generally dislike the naming of ships after politicians, with very few exceptions (Washington and Lincoln being obvious ones, and presidents who were Navy vets, like Carter and Bush, getting a submarine and carrier respectively isn't terrible either). Enterprise is a legacy name, and one of the better names given to American ships. Our best carrier name ever was USS Intrepid. I'd prefer we used more names along those lines.
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@JENKEM1000 Japanese poetic imagery aside, it is a wildly inappropriate name for a weapon of any kind. It just sounds gay.
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@Zephyrmec If they had, they would have ended up sunk by bombs and torpedoes
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@iansneddon2956 EE Evans did get a ship named after him, as did USS Johnston. Legacy names like that are fine, even if the original ones are uninspiring.
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