The Navy has made a report to Congress on plans for naming upcoming ships. You can read it here. This is a pet peeve of mine. I hate the developing trend of politicians naming everything after themselves and their buddies. The absolute pinnacle of this abomination is the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia who basically named everything in the state after himself.
I firmly believe that no ships should EVER be named after a living person. With certain rare exceptions I don’t think that ships should ever be named after politicians ( I make rare exception for long dead persons of historical significance such as Lincoln and Washington) Carriers should be named after battles, or historic previous ship names. Boomers should be named after States, Attack subs should be named after major cities. APDs and the like should be named for smaller US cities and counties. CGNs, DDs and FFGs should be named after naval heroes. None of them ever should be named for living people, especially living or recently deceased politicians. <end rant>
