Arleigh Burke DDG
(NAVY.MIL 04 JAN 19) … Secretary of the Navy Public Affairs
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer named a future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in honor of U.S. Navy Vietnam veteran, Navy Cross recipient, and former U.S. Senator from Alabama, Admiral Jeremiah Denton.
“Admiral Denton’s legacy is an inspiration to all who wear our nation’s uniform,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “His heroic actions during a defining period in our history have left an indelible mark on our Navy and Marine Corps team and our nation. His service is a shining example for our Sailors and Marines and this ship will continue his legacy for decades to come.”
In 1947, Denton graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a test pilot, flight instructor, and squadron leader, and developed operational tactics still in use, such as the Haystack Concept, which calls for the dispersing of carrier fleets to make it more difficult for the enemy to find the fleets on RADAR.
On July 18, 1965, Denton was shot down over North Vietnam and spent nearly eight years as a POW, almost half in isolation. During an interview with a Japanese media outlet, Denton used Morse code to blink “torture,” confirming that American POWs were being tortured. He suffered severe harassment, intimidation and ruthless treatment, yet he refused to provide military information or be used by the enemy for propaganda purposes.
In recognition of his extraordinary heroism while a prisoner-of-war, he was awarded the Navy Cross. Denton was released from captivity in 1973, retired from the Navy in 1977 and in 1980 was elected to the U.S. Senate where he represented Alabama.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers conduct a variety of operations from peacetime presence and crisis response to sea control and power projection. The future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) will be capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously, and will contain a combination of offensive and defensive weapon systems designed to support maritime warfare, including integrated air and missile defense and vertical launch capabilities.
The ship will be constructed at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Miss.. The ship will be 509 feet long, have a beam length of 59 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 30 knots.
Damn it’s good to have adults at the helm again. USS Jeremiah Denton, DDG 129, will bring 6,900 tons of kick-ass to the fleet.
I am waiting for the “Ocasio-Cortez” under the next Dem administration.
That would have to be a sailing ship with actual sails as she’s firmly against using fossil fuels, except for her of course, and we’d need to fund it through kickstarter or gofundme because, well just because.
,,,and it will be able to turn only to port.
What happened, did we run out of queers or trannies or whatever? This is a good choice, BTW. I am humbled by men and women such as Jeremiah Denton.
Would that be a submarine with screen doors?
Sorry accidentally pressed report.
HOOYAH DDG 129!!
Adm Denton and McStain; Both Navy Aviators, both shot down, both POWs, both US Senators.
Guess that’s where the similarities end. BZ DDG 129
Seems like a step up from the “Harvey Milk, “Gabrielle Giffords” or “Cesar Chavez”.
Quick history search on the Admiral: Navy Cross, Three Silver Stars, Distinguished Flying Cross, FIVE Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, and a Navy Comm w/V, along with 8 harrowing years as a POW. Then he turned around and served a tour as a Senator in the cesspool of DC. These days we have AOC, Pelosi, and the like running the show. How the mighty have fallen.
Rumor has it he had an entire squad of midshipman to tote his gigantic brass balls around.
If I were in the Navy and assigned to one of those three, I’d lie about my assignment. It’s embarrassing. Harvey took a dick in the ass. Gabrielle took a slug in the head. Cesar picked grapes.
Harvey liked to put his dick in young teenage boys’ asses.
There is no exhausting the list of sailors and Marines whose valor was recognized with the Medal of Honor. If ever the idiots get their shit together, maybe they will rename those vessels and use that list to do so.
You forgot the USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26).
And Murtha took the cash.
If I were on a ship named for certain people, I’d tell others I was a Corpsman on a garbage scow.
Refreshing. In the last administration, Representative Cohen might have made the cut.
Most righteous! RADM Denton took an incredible personal risk to blink out his code. Very deserving of a ship.
In other news, Indiana cops discovered a shitbird army deserter. https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-army-deserter-found-nearly-two-decades-later-in-indiana-police-say
Brodbeck seems to be a model citizen, one we should all strive to be.
Bwhaaa
He’s a shitbird but I would not wanted to live as he did for 19 years. What a miserable life he must have led. I sincerely hope he does hard time but the Army might possibly just kick him to the curb to be done with him. Maybe in a future Drat administration, he can have a Navy ship named after him.
He’ll get a Big Chicken Dinner and show up on the stolen valor circuit in about 3 more years, done caught the PTSD and claiming POW status from his weekend at the ghey whey hotel doing the washing for BTJ&T.
The difference between a real SecNav and a SJWing cocksucker like Roy Mabus…
The same blockhead who tried to throw out the Navy’s 200 year old rating system to make it more “gender neutral” because many of them used ‘man’ as a suffix. If that bothers anybody maybe the Navy or the military in general is not for you. Many sailors were not happy about that decision. Thankfully it was reversed after four months just about.
Mabus was a laughing stock Navy-wide, O’s, E’s, males and females alike.
Forgot to add, DON civilians and Contractor Support, too.
Hat tip to Jeff Bacon
Remember the pilot episode of “The Last Ship,” where Mabus appears in a recorded video and is then confirmed dead from the plague?
“And there was much rejoicing!”
I do indeed. Possibly the best scene in the whole series.
Hate to tell ya, TOW, but “The Last Ship” was more full of shit than a Democrat politician.
I don’t doubt that for a second, but I still found it entertaining. Besides, it would have to try *really* hard to be as full of shit as “Chicago Fire.”
You must have the “nobody will stay in the room when a (fill in the blank) movie is on” syndrome.
I know it well.
More like “Rhona Mitra” syndrome. Only reason to watch.
Damn, she’s hot…
Drives my wife up the wall.
Me: “Bullshit…wouldn’t happen…she’d get fired…nope…bullshit…uh-uh…bullshit…doing it wrong…bullshit…wouldn’t work…put your PPE on right, dipshit…that’s illegal…oh look, banging in the station again, but somehow nobody gets fired…more bullshit…yeah, no…Jesus Christ, are they secretly trying to kill that patient?…aw, HELL no—
Wife: “For the love of God, why do you even watch this show? [Cambodian profanity].”
MRS D is an ER nurse. She throws a ton of bullshit flags too. It’s not just me!
Ha! I do the same thing. Mightily pisses my wife off. (I get German profanity.)
That certainly does not surprise me. Can’t say I miss the previous administration at all.
Skimminig this, I initially thought they named it after a man coincidentally named Richard Spencer, which was even more ammusing to me. Still, nice to see a return to naming normalcy.
I’m glad they named a ship after the Rear Admiral but I always liked those sleek lines of the old tin cans from the 1940’s and 50’s, like the lines on a 57 Chevy. I guess times change with new design features and stronger armament.
She’s still a destroyer, which is the only category of warship that’s (mostly) followed the same naming conventions since 1900. Besides, something about the Arleigh Burke-class’s lines does remind me of the old Benson- and Fletcher-class tin cans of WWII, and there’s also something about it that vaguely harkens back even further to the Clemson/Wickes-class “four-stacker” DDs.
[i]Destroyer[/i] sounds so scarey. Can’t they be called [b]Make-it-Go-Awayers[/b]?
They’ll start calling them “Defenders” soon enough. To paraphrase Heinlein, “No ‘Department of Defense’ ever won a war.”
There was a book and made for TV movie When Hell was in Session about the Admiral. I highly recommend both.
Thanks!
When Hell Was in Session
IMDB Link
When voters elected legit heroes to the senate instead of electing terrorist sympathizer today.
A worthy tribute to a very decent man.
It would be nice to see some of the previous despicable blunders by former Sec. Navy, particularly Harvey Milk, rectified.
Rectal Milk.