The future USS Tripoli launches at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Miss., May 1, 2017. The Tripoli incorporates an enlarged hangar deck, enhanced maintenance facilities, increased fuel capacity and additional storerooms to provide the fleet with a platform optimized for aviation capabilities. Navy photo
Department of Defense: Navy to Christen Amphibious Assault Ship Tripoli
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2017 — The Navy will christen its newest America-class amphibious assault ship, the future USS Tripoli, tomorrow during a 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time ceremony in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Thomas Dee, performing the duties of the undersecretary of the Navy, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Lynne Mabus, the wife of the 75th Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, will serve as the ship's sponsor. The ceremony will be highlighted by Mabus breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow to formally christen the ship, a time-honored Navy tradition.
"When USS Tripoli, the newest America-class amphibious assault ship, joins the fleet, we'll be a stronger, more flexible, and better Navy and Marine Corps team," Dee said. "The ship will be a force multiplier, and her crew will proudly serve our country for decades to come. I am grateful to the men and women of Ingalls Shipbuilding for their dedication and to the citizens of Pascagoula for their unwavering support as we continue to make our Navy stronger."
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Update #1: Navy to christen the USS Tripoli — a ship that will pack helicopters, F-35s, and thousands of Marines (Business Insider)
Update #2: Navy to christen new America-class amphibious assault ship (UPI)
WNU Editor: There are going to be more of these ships (11 are planned, see link here).
6 comments:
I love new ships and new weapon platforms in general.. but I cannot help but think how much money we as humans spend too keep other humans at bay. 1-2 Trillion every year easily (US, Russia and China combined have about 1tn budget for defence spending a year..includes personnel of course, but still)..
Roman's of the Roman Empire said "if you want peace, prepare war". They learn that the hard way: every time they reduce their army they was invaded with pillaging and worse.
Peace has a price we only value when we are at war because we was not prepared. I am French and I know what American cannot know: being occupied by our enemy with a huge price because our own failure.
Jac,
How many Frenchmen did not return from forced labor in Germany during WW2?
I believe the NNAZIs made the request and the Vichy government fulfilled it. Was it 180,000 men or was it more?
That act is a shame for Germany.
On Forced labor.
I thought I had read 180,000. that must have been a request or the initial request.
The total was 1.1 million for France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II#Numbers
Some forced laborers did not make it back. That was the NAZI plan.
'"Roman's of the Roman Empire said "if you want peace, prepare war".' - What Jac said
Yes, you have to prepare and you have to have the will or you will be Vichy'd
The Holocaust: The French Vichy Regime
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-french-vichy-regime
The Ploughshares movement reminds me of why we had "The Logan Act."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Lilienthal
Who needs enemies, when you have utopians?
Pragmatists will reside utopia; Utopians will never get there.
and Russia had capitalist govt and so they stayed and fought at Stalingrad? and Italy? dictator but they ran too
put aside biases. they make dumb statement
I have problems with AJ's assertion.
On Russia.
the Russian fought hard, because it was a totalitarian regime and because it was the Great Patriotic War. They had no illusion that the NAZIs would exterminate them. Probably the only thing worse than being a captured Russian was being a Jew.
It has been shown that the Italians could fight well in WW2, when fighting under competent leadership. Somehow Italian tech and leadership was not quite their. their planes and tanks were good for the early 30s and then ... nothing.
The French army folded in part because they put to much stock in the Maginot Line and it was a shock, when they started losing. French doctrine was also to blame. They deployed tanks piecemeal.
The German spearhead was threatened at least twice. The French may have won, if they had more resolute leadership. De Gaulle, the egotistical bastard that he was, had a fairly good grasp of armored warfare. Part of the French failure can be attributed to the cultural/societal PTSD from WW1. You should see some of the art portraying casualties of WW1 in 1920s art.
IMO their were more Vichy (leaders & citizens) than resistance fighters. France could have been colonized of the NAZIs had won. I am not saying that any other population is much different.
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