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From: ferguson@maitai.src.honeywell.com (Dennis Ferguson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Naval vessel naming conventions
Message-ID: <11306@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 12:40:48 GMT
References: <11070@cbnews.ATT.COM> <11115@cbnews.ATT.COM>
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From: ferguson@maitai.src.honeywell.com (Dennis Ferguson)

In article <11115@cbnews.ATT.COM> eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood) writes:
:names.  cruisers are named [usually] after secondary cities in various
:states though state capitols are still represented.  destroyers and FF's
:are named after famous sailors or other notables in naval lore.  gator
:navy still gets counties and this leads to weird things... for instance,
:lpd-9 is the denver, i believe lpd-10 is the juneau... is this for the
:county or the city???

I sorry, I couldn't resist this correction since I served on the USS
Juneau, LPD-7.

Dennis