Talk:USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10)

Associated Press citations become dead on Yahoo
Editors should ensure that any Associated Press citations they introduce come from a website with long-term license to AP's articles. I just added a second reference about the sponsor because it has been my experience that AP articles on Yahoo! eventually become dead links. 67.101.5.207 (talk) 02:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

controversy?
Wasn't there a woman that shielded a child with her body and died at the same attack in which Mrs. Giffords was wounded? If so then why isn't the Navy naming it after this woman to honor her bravery? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.21.180.41 (talk) 16:32, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Just about any politician who gets shot at gets a ship named after them. GHWB was only shot at in the 40s, but there doesn't seem to be a statute of limitations. (Unless they counted the 1993 plot?) Hcobb (talk) 17:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * George H.W. Bush's Avenger was hit by flak and caught fire. He flew the plane over and bombed the target and retreated back to sea before he and one other of the 3 man crew bailed out as one was already killed. Bush was the only survivor as the other man's chute never opened. That is hardly being "shot at". Having something named after him was certainly justified. Giffords being attacked really isn't in the same ballpark as far as justified naming of a warship. 71.75.194.193 (talk) 01:34, 18 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I disagree, one serving in the airforce during a major war can expect to get shot at. A congresswoman delivering a public speech as an elected official cannot. As such I feel it is completely justified to name the ship after her. It sends a message that those trying to silence or undermine democracy & the political process accomplish the opposite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.194.52.45 (talk) 20:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Stats for the ship
Article states that the USS Gabrielle Giffords is 17th naval ship (US?) named after a woman and the 13th ship to be named for a living person since 1850. The wiki page List of U.S. military vessels named after women (linked to in the sentence) lists 16 ships including the USS Gabrielle Giffords. The wiki page List of U.S. military vessels named after living Americans (also linked to in the same sentence and the page I got here from) lists 17. Since other wikipedia pages can't be used as a source I checked the link to the original reference but the politico.com article shown as the reference doesn't state anything about either the number of ships named after women or living persons so I'm not sure where the original numbers came from. Wolfhound668 (talk) 18:10, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I noticed also that the Politico article wasn't a valid cite for the stated numbers. I found a listing on the U.S. Navy's History and Heritage Command website which listed all the ships named after women by the US Navy.  That list contained 15 ships, including the Gabrielle Giffords; I used it as a cite and corrected the article.  The reason the wiki page list of U.S. military vessels named after women listed 16 ships, and not 15, is that one of the ships was a Continental Navy ship, not a United States Navy ship.  I made a clarifying edit on that page, as well. Shelbystripes (talk) 02:46, 30 March 2013 (UTC)