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Re: Admiral Promoted Three Times In Four Years Under Obama

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I think if you were to ask anyone who has ever had sea duty in the Navy, they would tell you that all US Navel vessels are 'warships'. Otherwise, why did we build them. And if you were to ask the Marines which would have been deployed from the Rushmore whether they were serving on a 'warship' I suspect that they would say that they were. Just because it didn't have 16 inch guns (as if any ship has anything like that anymore) doesn't mean that it wouldn't play a critical role during a time of war or that it wouldn't be subject to enemy fire during a navel engagement.




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Re: Admiral Promoted Three Times In Four Years Under Obama
By: ribit
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Wed, 02 Jul 14 9:58 PM
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She was the first black woman to command a ship — the amphibious dock landing ship Rushmore in 1999

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140630/NEWS/306300039/Howard-receive-history-making-4th-star-Tuesday

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...hardly a warship, but that being said, she did graduate from the naval academy which is no easy task.


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