Carter = KA
 

Several stories have mentioned that Carter "lived in the KA House" at GA tech, and his room mate was ___ Robinson, eventually the pres of American Express. The Robinson guy is one of KA's most famous alumni.

KA never made JC a member though.

could have sworn it was the submarine that helped "win" the cold war.

The "prairie submariners" (land-based ICBM crews) might take exception to the above remark. :D Four nearly-simultaneous key turns and Rooshia woulda been a parking lot.

"41 for Freedom" - referring to the first- and second-generation ballistic missile submarines, first with Polaris, then Poseidon and finally Trident C-4 missiles. Nearly all of these submarines were named after U.S. and Latin American independence figures.

Re: Carter = KA
 

this has to do with the thread how???

Re: Carter = KA
 

I don't think Jimmy Carter ever lived in the KA house at Georgia Tech. That wouldn't make sense because he married Rosalynn Smith shortly after he graduated from USNA. So even if perhaps he eventually did graduate work at Georgia Tech, I don't think a married man would live in a fraternity house.

I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

Re: Re: Carter = KA
 

A poor attempt in trying to divert attention from his previous post about Carter being a weeinie. (I know I spelled weeinie wrong)

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He went to Georgia Tech before he went to the Naval Academy. Many people do this, but I wouldn't consider it a transfer because, if I remember correctly, not one credit transfers over from a college when someone transfers to a US military academy.

Getting this thread back on track, normally getting an aircraft carrier named after you is a higher honor than a submarine. Not in this case. The Seawolf class submarine is the most capable attack submarine ever built, and it will probably be decades until a better submarine will be built. Only three Seawolfs were built. The final one, the Jimmy Carter is even more special because it has an extended hull to accommodate special operations.

This former submariner is getting the very best attack submarine ever built named after him. That is a very high honor in my book.

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Exactly.... having something in your trade named after you is very high honour (in the US military)... so someone who served in the cavalry/armoured would feel more honoured by a tank being named after him than something outside of thier trade - whereas a submariner will always prefer to have a submarine named after them...

jc
 

Naming an attack submarine after Jimmy Carter is like naming a wing of the MLK Center for Non-Violence after Osama bin Laden.

- The Vent, Atlanta

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I don't know how often this subs actually "attack". Subs seem to be used more nowadays for intelligence gathering, especially top secret stuff.

I actually talked to the officer that I know that worked on the similar sub, the USS Parche, talked about in the cnn article. He thinks it's funny all the speculation about what he sub actually did... Guess it's talked about up there in Washington (the state) a lot. Of course, he could neither confirm nor deny anything. My guess is that the sub launches out of the water and he's been exploring Mars ;)