Uss John Mccain
USS John McCain: Mission attempted Not the senator - not the Republican nominee for president last year -- but rather the Naval destroyer named for his father and grandfather, admirals of the Navy. The U.S. military is planning to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a United Nations. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News reports today. \"The USS John McCain will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is getting into position. \"The North Korean vessel left port Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials, a violation of U.N. Resolution 1874, which put sanctions in place against Pyongyang.'' The American vessel is the second named for a father and son pair of admirals and graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy, which also graduated the senator from Arizona and most recently his son, John S. McCain IV, who was greeted at his commencement in Annapolis this year by the speaker, President Barack Obama, who defeated the senator in last year's election. (USS John McCain: Navy photo) The first of two naval destroyers named for the admirals, the USS John S. McCain, had been commissioned in 1953. The senator's grandfather, born and raised on a Mississippi plantation, became a Navy pilot and served in the Pacific in the summer of 1944 as commander of the Second Fast Carrier Force. Awarded the Navy Cross, he attended the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in August 1945. The senator's father, born in Iowa, became Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Command in 1968, as the Vietnam War reached its height. He attained that command soon after his son, a young bomber pilot from the carrier Oriskany, was shot down over Hanoi and taken captive by the North Vietnamese. The admiral served as CINCPAC throughout his son's imprisonment. The first ship named for the admirals was sold for scrap in 1980. The second, the guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, was commissioned in 1994. The son and grandson of the ship's namesakes, McCain's Sr. and Jr., the senator, McCain III, attended with his wife. The USS McCain was involved in an incident with a Chinese sub last Friday - near Subic Bay off the Philippines. The Chinese sub was shadowing the destroyer when it hit the underwater sonar array that the USS McCain was towing behind it. That same navy destroyer that was being shadowed by the Chinese is now positioning itself for a possible interdiction of the North Korean vessel.
Uss John Mccain
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