General George S. Patton
LTGEN Chesty Puller
RADM Richard E. Byrd
Answer after the jump.
They all attended VMI, although they did not graduate. They went on to other things…
Patton matriculated with the Class of 1907, but left after his Rat year to attend West Point, a lifelong dream of his.
Chesty Puller matriculated with the Class of 1921, but left after his Rat year to enlist in the USMC in an attempt to fight in WWI. He wanted to get into the action.
Richard E. Byrd spent matriculated with the Class of 1908, spent one year at UVA, and went on the the Naval Academy . Additionally, RADM Byrd is one of seven VMI alumni to receive the Medal of Honor.
Now, the next question (and I am not going to give you the answer to this one):
How many ships have been named for these men?
the path to greatest leads through a terminated cadetship!
“How many ships have been named for these men?”
As far as I know, not a one. Damn shame.
All VMI men.
BTW, we just hit 18 years this weekend, BR BullNav!
An FFG was named for Chesty, A DDG For Adm Byrd, and a Federation starship after Patton (according to all the trekkies).
LTCOL P – since it is a drill weekend for me, and I was by myself at the Great Lakes BOQ, I drank a couple last night, since our PEBD was 5-19-89. Yep, thought about it a good bit.
JV – there is one more…
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=imus+patton
Nevermind Imus, this guy’s a good comedian.
Enjoy.
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=imus+patton
Nevermind Imus, this guy’s a good comedian.
Enjoy.
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Never heard of one so will guess nada!
Right about the Fig for Chesty Puller, and the Adams class DDG-23 for ADM Byrd, but a USNS T-AKE-4 was just launched in Sandy Eggo General Dynamics.
-SJBill
There was one ship named for Gen. “Chesty” Puller, the memorabilia is sitting in the Navy department. There was a USNS cargoship and DDG-23 named after Admiral Byrd. So, discounting Star Trek, that’s three ships total.
Deborah – no, we are not fooling around.
SJBill and Andrew got it right:
DDG23: USS RICHARD E. BYRD
FFG23: USS LEWIS B. PULLER
T-AKE-4: USNS RICHARD E. BYRD
No ships have been named for Patton, although a US Army main battle tank, the M48 series, was named the Patton.
I sit corrected…
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