The Minister of Defense, Pete Hegesh, ordered the Naval Fleet to rename the Harvey milk ship and erase the name of the right of the murdered rights of LGTBI, which served as a sailor during the Korean War. The information was put forward on the military portal.com.
On Tuesday, CBS reported that the Naval Fleet is also considering the renaming of other ships, including USns Thurgood Marshall, USns Ruth Bader Ginsburg and USns Harriet Tubman. Both Marshall and Ginzburg were judges of the Supreme Court, while Tokman was an Afro -American abolitionist who helped the slaves escape from the south through underground routes.
According to the Associated Press, the fleet secretary, John Flan, formed a small team to set a new name to the replenishment ship, and it is expected that the change will be announced this month.
The change appears in the internal memorandum, in which, according to the sources consulted by AP, the solution is justified as a way to comply with the goals of President Donald Trump and Hegs to “restore the culture of the warrior”.
This is the new movement of the Hegseth and Trump administration to eliminate programs, politicians, books and links on social networks related to diversity, justice and inclusion. And this happens in the middle of pride, at the same time when the Pentagon strengthens its campaign to expel transgender military from the armed forces.
The Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement collected by AP, the hegset is “committed to ensuring that the names prescribed for all objects and assets of the Ministry of Defense reflect the priorities of the commander in chief, the history of our nation and the fighting spirit.”
USns Harvey Milk was named in 2016 – if Baptism ceremony This was in 2021 – then the secretary of the fleet Ray Mabus, who explained that the ships of the John Lewis class will wear the names of leaders who fought for civil rights and human rights.
Milk has served for four years in the Navy before it was expelled for their sexual orientation. He later became one of the first homosexual politicians who were elected to a public position: he took a place in the Council of the leaders of the San Francisco, from where he promoted a decree that prohibited discrimination from sexual orientation in state places, housing and employment. The rule was approved and signed by Mayor George Musca.
On November 27, 1978, milk and Moskon were killed by Dan White, disappointed with Exoncejal, who was the only one who voted against the Milk project.
Although the changes in the name on the ships are rare, the Joe Biden administration also renamed two ships from the Military Fleet in 2023 as part of the efforts to eliminate the confederation names from the US military facilities.
USS Chancellorsville, limited by the battle of the Civil War, was called USS Robert Smalls in honor of the sailor and former slave. For its part, the USNS Maury, an oceanographic ship originally prescribed by a confederate sailor, was renamed the USns Marie Tharp, a geologist and cartographist, who created the first scientific cards of the Atlantic Ocean.