# What will US do w surplus a/c carriers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 24, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223 "2009-04-24T15:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/41 "2009-04-29T12:13:33Z")
How about the “USS BUDGET DEFICIT”-has a nice ring to it…also accurately describes the state we are in. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/42 "2009-04-29T12:27:23Z")
Am I the only one who thought of “air conditioning” and “alternating current” before “aircraft” when reading the thread title? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/43 "2009-04-30T15:47:42Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > How about the “USS BUDGET DEFICIT”-has a nice ring to it..also accurately describes the state we are in. Well, OK. But for sake of fairness, we ought to rename Social Security to something like Unfunded Obligation, and Medicare to Budget Buster. Since I don’t see that happening, you’re stuck with ships named after politicians who screwed the budget up, and not the budget. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/44 "2009-04-30T15:58:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > FWIW, my dad’s ship, CLG-5 _Oklahoma City_, was torpedoed by a South Korean submarine in a war game. Playing for keeps, were they? ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/45 "2009-04-30T20:41:21Z")
I’m waiting for the USS _Robert S McNamara_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/46 "2009-04-30T21:37:05Z")
Well, there’s a _USS Ford, Lincoln_ and _Falcon_. That has McNamara’s career prior to the DoD covered. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/47 "2009-05-01T06:26:36Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > I’m waiting for the USS _Robert S McNamara_ No please never never ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/48 "2009-05-08T18:32:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I think it was a serious mistake to name supercarriers after _relatively_ obscure members of Congress like John Stennis and Carl Vinson: [USS John C. Stennis - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_Stennis), [USS Carl Vinson - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson_(CVN-70)). There’s no way, in terms of national significance, that those gentlemen were in the same league as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, etc. Not national significance, but Stennis and Vinson were both very influential in the development of the Navy that exists today. And they are the only two with ships named after them. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223/49 "2009-05-08T20:33:39Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > How about the “USS BUDGET DEFICIT”-has a nice ring to it..also accurately describes the state we are in. You’ve been reading Ian Banks , have’nt you. Declan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-us-do-w-surplus-a-c-carriers/494223.md?page=2)