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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F-14D" data-source="post: 62869" data-attributes="member: 851"><blockquote data-quote="Triton">I have been reading about the 1949 "Revolt of the Admirals", Admiral Louis Emil Denfeld had guts to publicly disagree with Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson over the doctrine of strategic bombing and the cancellation of USS United States. Did Denfeld, Gallery, and the other Admirals save the Navy and Marine Corps in 1949?Should a ship be named in his honor and the other Admirals in the  "Revolt of the Admirals"?http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853921-1,00.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals</blockquote>Although they did a brave, courageous and patriotic thing, the "Revolt of the Admirals" didn't accomplish that much except to cost them their pensions, which is why you haven't seen anything on that scale since (there was reportedly a mini one in the 1990s involving a few AF generals regarding the lack of maintenance and supplies prevalent then, but nothing like this).    What saved carrier air power was North Korea invading the South (we all know how effective the B-36 was during the Korean War--not a slam, making a point).  If anyone deserves to have a carrier named after them it would be Captain Frank Ault.  Will never happen, though. Politicians love to celebrate themselves and their "profession".   With the exception  of the Nimitz, no US carrier since 1960 has been named for anything other than a politician</blockquote>

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