The first warship to be named after San Antonio will officially go into service here Saturday, and it's no surprise that the vessel has closely linked itself with Texas's most famous military battle.
The USS San Antonio, the first of the Navy's new class of amphibious landing ships, has stitched the Alamo's distinctive facade into its ship crest and it has adopted the same "Never surrender, never retreat" motto used 170 years ago by Crockett, Travis and the others defending the structure now known as the shrine of Texas liberty.
Former president George H.W. Bush is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Saturday's commissioning ceremony, to be held on a concrete dock alongside the 684-foot San Antonio before the ship returns to its homeport of Norfolk, Va.
Capt. Jon Padfield, the ship's commander, praised his new vessel as a vast improvement over the ships now used to transport ground forces and get them to shore.
"It's been designed specifically to get Marines into the fight faster and safer than ever before," said Padfield, who previously commanded an older-version landing ship. "The money we've invested in this ship is worth every penny for our sailors and Marines."
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