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Originally posted by The1calledTKE
So when Jimmy Carter dies its ok to put him on currency since he won the noble peace prize?
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Jimmy Carter already has a Seawolf-class attack submarine named for him (SSN-23), to be commissioned next year. (PCU (Pre-Commissioning Unit)
Jimmy Carter (the USS designation does not apply to the boat until it is commissioned). It's extremely rare for a living person to be so honored by the Navy.
(Before anyone gets even more riled up there is a USS John S. McCain. Not named after the ex-Vietnam POW and senior senator from Arizona, but after his father, Adm. John S. McCain, Jr., commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet in Vietnam.)
Not bad for a glow-in-the-dark bubblehead. (Disparaging Navyspeak for a nuclear submariner - Carter was an engineering officer in the early days of the Nuclear Navy. The title of his first autobiography "Why Not The Best?" comes from a remark said to him when he underwent his dreaded interview with Adm. Hyman Rickover, the 'father of the nuclear Navy'.)
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