Relative to my earlier post, I have just been informed by a highly placed and very reliable source that there will be a National Security Cutter named for Douglas Munro.
The planned names for the remaining cutters, approved by the Commandant in February, will be:
#5 James, #6 Kimball, #7 Munro, #8 Midgett
The Name that is no longer on the list is “Stone.”
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
Well lets hope that is correct! Also I still do not believed that a NSC the Coast Guard flag ships, should be named after Kimball. Commander Elmer F. Stone U.S.C.G. was the first Coast Guard Naval Aviator. Also he was the pilot of the Navy NC4 seaplane, the first airplane to successful cross the Atlantic Ocean. You might say he is the founder of the Coast Guard Aviation.
Stone had far more sea time than flight time. All aviators in his era were expected to keep to sea. The philosophy was that the Coast Guard was then a sea going service and all officers should be competent seamen. This issue arose in the 1930s when aviators began complaining that having to serve at sea seriously impaired their flying abilities.
Even enlisted people in aviation were expected to have a minimum of two-years sea duty before applying for an aviation rating. I have not seen how hard and fast these rules were. In the mid-1930s, the Coast Guard actively recruited Army enlisted aviation technicians for appointments to the CGA. I’ve got names of a few but have not inquired if they made it or not.
I do like the idea that aviators have at sea experience on the deck level. I am sure the same complaints would arise as they did 75 years ago. The actual founder and supporter of modern Coast Guard aviation was a black shoe.
The spelling will be Midgett, I have corrected this in the post.
MD, your comments were deleted because they were off topic.
To Chuck Hill about MD. Good!!! I thought about responding to his comments, but decided not to get into a argument with a idiot!
Will I guess I have another opportunity to explained to people that it is spell with two t,s. And it it is named after a guy called CWO John Allen Midgett. I served on the USCGC Midgett in the 1970’s.
Great news. I hope they find a way to appropriately honor CDR Stone as well.
HII reports they have begun to cut steel on the new USCGC Munro. There is also a an update on the status of the entire NSC Class construction progress:
http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/News-Releases/Ingalls-Shipbuilding-Starts-Construction-on-Sixth-National-Security-Cutter-for-the-U-S-Coast-Guard-345.aspx