PETITION: To name the 2nd FORD Class US Nuclear Carrier, CVN-79 as the USS Enterprise

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The Last Jedi
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Re: PETITION: To name the 2nd FORD Class US Nuclear Carrier, CVN-79 as the USS Enterp

There was an SSBN named Thomas Jefferson..

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USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), a Ethan Allen-class nuclear-powered submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809). She later was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-618.

Thomas Jefferson's keel was laid down on 3 February 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding sponsored by Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and commissioned on 4 January 1963.

In fiscal year 1981, in compliance with the SALT I treaty, the missile section of Thomas Jefferson was disabled. Concrete blocks were placed in the ballistic missile tubes, the ballistic missile fire-control system was removed as was one of the ship's inertial navigation systems. The ship was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-618 on 11 March 1981 and retained primarily for training, antisubmarine warfare exercises, and other secondary duties.

Decommissioned on 24 January 1985 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 April 1986, ex-Thomas Jefferson started the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton on 1 October 1996 and ceased to exist upon completion of the recycling process on 6 March 1998.
 

MwRYum

Major
Re: PETITION: To name the 2nd FORD Class US Nuclear Carrier, CVN-79 as the USS Enterp

Well they can't call it USS Montana, states reserved for SSBNs...
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Re: PETITION: To name the 2nd FORD Class US Nuclear Carrier, CVN-79 as the USS Enterp

those rules are bendable just look at the
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. If the Navy board or in the case of A CVN congress feels it's a special case they could name it anything they want. and for the record even today SSBN's in the US Navy can use peoples names case in point, USS Henry M. Jackson
 
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