YGTBSM!! The USS Chavez - right up there with Big E, Mighty Mo, The Sullivans??

[scoolbubba]

Hot off the presses in the WTFO department

With all due respect, Mr Secretary, but what the hell?

 

[CAMike]

Ray Maybus and the Moral ReDistribution Department are on a special kind of mission. Even the hardcore Caesar Chavez groupies in CA think having a warship with his name on it is ludicrous since he was a pacifist at heart. Cesar didn't like his two years in the Navy and certainly didn't support the Navy in even the slightest way, so why name a ship after him? Ray- My avatar is plain sarcasm! You're actively beating your Navy with a new kind of moral authority and it hurts in a "Not Nice" way.

 

[HooverPilot]

So you are saying on cruise I may be getting my fruits & vegetables from the Ceasar Chavez? Kinda ironic isn't it?

 

[gaijin6423]

A friend from Ye Olde Boate Schoole is stationed aboard a ship in drydock nearby the alleged Chavez. He actually had to educate some of his junior mint DIVOs on who the proposed namesake was, and they're response was essentially, "So what?"

Personally, I think what any boat named []Chavez[/I] needs is a Skipper with enough balls to scuttle her on her first sea trial. ...Preferably with the Honorable Barbara Boxer--who was SO impressed by the Navy's line of thinking--lashed to the deck.

To quote someone else: "I weep..."

 

[scoolbubba]

Maybe they could find two CO's who don't give a flying F and unrep the Chavez and the John Murtha directly into one another.

 

[A4sForever]

Most/many of you are too young to remember the heyday of Chavez's "organizing", i.e. the days of "grapes of wrath" & lettuce boycotts. His lineage goes through the UFW with Dolores Huerta, the "Rev" Jesse Jackson as a latter-day hanger-on, down to Fred Ross, the CSO, Saul Alinsky, and a host of others ...

But hey, politics aside, Chavez served in the Navy for 2 years & I heard somewhere he was seasick whenever more than 2 feet from the pier ... I served for 20 years and never got seasick once. Where's MY ship ???

But mebbe this is a good thing? Instead of having red lettuce and green tomatoes, one wonders if the crew will find that lettuce and tomatoes are the "proper" colores (sic) in the USS Chavez chow line .... ??? Or perhaps even '60s tie-dyed ???

The USS Chavez. What a strange world we live in ...

It almost makes one weep for the future ...

 

[Uncle Fester]

So you are saying on cruise I may be getting my fruits & vegetables from the Ceasar Chavez? Kinda ironic isn't it?

Nice.

 

[KBayDog]

Is this the first step towards unionizing the Navy?

 

[navyterp67]

Odd Choice for Ship Name

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/18/congressman-blasts-navy-naming-ship-cesar-chavez/

USNS Cesar Chavez? Really?

Along with the suggestion of Sgt Peralta in the article, I feel like there are better suggestions for the name of this ship.

This reminds me of another thread where the point was made about aircraft carrier names; how we have Vinson, Stennis, and others, instead of Wasp, Independce, and others of old.

 

[Praying4OCS]

.........Chavez served in the Navy for 2 years..........

Also......
17 year-old Cesar Chavez enlisted in the Navy, spending what he would later describe as “the two worst years of my life.”
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez.html
Yea, lets name it after him.

 

[CommodoreMid]

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As much of a douche as he was, at least he could wear a dixie cup with some salt.

 

[A4sForever]

As much of a douche as he was, at least he could wear a dixie cup with some salt.

THIS ... now, THIS is an example of wearing the white hat w/ "some salt" ....

 

[rare21]

At least he served

 

[1rotorhead]

What's the big deal? this guy was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Six time world champion!

 

[Gatordev]

What's the big deal? this guy was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Six time world champion!

I thought he was the guy on TV with all the dogs.