THE S.S. MURTHA? NAMED FOR A MAN WHO DEFILED THE MILITARY

Posted By on January 14th, 2011

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/id.6765/blog_detail.aspVets Angry After Navy Sec. Names Warship After Former Dem Rep. Murtha

“The Navy’s scheme for naming ships, especially capital ships like carriers and subs, has become a joke,” writes Douglas Pauly, recalling when carriers were named for battles, battleships for states, cruisers for cities, destroyers for people, and submarines for marine life. Traditionalists like the convenience of such categories, where knowing the name of a vessel instantly declares what kind of ship it is.”

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/01/09/the-u-s-navys-name-game/#ixzz1B0hL5NtE

Mabus’ decision has unleashed a continuing torrent of opposition from many former sailors and Marines. They say that naming a vessel for Murtha rewards a lawmaker who called for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq in late 2005 during the war’s toughest days, and one who was implicated in bribery and pork-barrel politics. On Friday, a former congressional aide close to Murtha was sentenced to 27 months in prison for evading limits on campaign donations; Murtha also was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in 1980’s FBI-run Abscam sting.

And that isn’t the worst of it, according to sailors and Marines: putting Murtha’s name on an amphibious warship designed to carry 700 Marines is outrageous, they maintain, given Murtha’s 2006 charge that Marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha “killed innocent civilians in cold blood.” (One of the eight Marines charged in the case still faces trial; six have had their charges dismissed and one was acquitted.) “Name a ship after a congressman who disgraced himself by rushing to judge that fellow Marines had committed murder in Iraq?” …

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