Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:51:21 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Kirk? No Spock?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

A truly horrid website, you have to enable a ton of crap... but...
Excerpt:
Get ready for this: the skipper of the newest, most futuristic ship the
U.S. Navy has ever built is none other than Capt. James Kirk.

Let that settle in for a second.

Almost a full 50 years from the birth of the fictional Capt. James T. Kir=
k
in 1966, the real Capt. James A. Kirk (no relation) is taking the helm of=

the USS Zumwalt, reports Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News.

>From Yahoo:

Kirk, a native of Bethesda, Md., was commissioned at the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1990 and has served in a variety posts as a "surface warfare
officer," according to his online bio. "Ashore, Captain Kirk has served a=
s
Executive Assistant to the Navy=92s Chief of Legislative Affairs and as a=
n
Action Officer on the Joint Staff."
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<http://www.businessinsider.com/capt-james-kirk-zumwalt-2013-10>

     mark