Navy ship USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed as part of Pentagon's 'warrior culture' shift

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of a U.S. Navy vessel named aft San Francisco cheery rights activistic Harvey Milk.

The Military Times first reported connected a memorandum issued by the Office of the Secretary of the Navy rolling retired plans to rename the oiler USNS Harvey Milk.

The outlet reported that a defence authoritative said the U.S. Navy was making preparations to portion the vessel of its sanction and that Hegseth had directed Navy Secretary John Phelan to bash so. The Military Times besides reported the authoritative saying the timing of the announcement during Pride period was intentional.

The memo directing the renaming of the vessel said the determination is meant to people a displacement successful civilization successful the Department of Defense and U.S. Navy successful "alignment with president and SECDEF [secretary of defense] objectives and SECNAV [secretary of the Navy] priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture," according to the outlet.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of a U.S. Navy vessel named aft San Francisco cheery rights activistic Harvey Milk.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Department of Defense and U.S. Navy but did not person a response.

In an emailed connection sent to Fox News, main Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell did not contradict the renaming of the vessel but indicated that further sanction changes whitethorn beryllium coming.

"Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to each DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos," said Parnell.

Parnell said that "any imaginable renaming(s) volition beryllium announced aft interior reviews are complete."

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The USNS Harvey Milk was named aft Milk successful 2016 during the Obama administration. The vessel completed its maiden voyage successful 2024, arriving successful San Francisco with overmuch fanfare.

The USNS Harvey Milk was named aft Milk successful 2016 during the Obama administration. The vessel completed its maiden voyage successful 2024, arriving successful San Francisco with overmuch fanfare.

According to the Harvey Milk Foundation, Milk was a "visionary civilian and quality rights person who became 1 of the archetypal openly cheery elected officials successful the United States" erstwhile helium was elected to nationalist bureau successful San Francisco successful 1977.

The instauration said that Milk enlisted successful the Navy successful 1951 but resigned successful 1955 astatine the fertile of lieutenant inferior people "after being officially questioned astir his intersexual orientation."

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during Nancy Pelosi successful speech with Katie Couric astatine 92NY connected Oct. 24, 2024 successful New York City.  (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

The renaming has been soundly condemned by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who called the determination a "shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to interruption down barriers for each to pursuit the American Dream."

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"As the remainder of america are celebrating the joyousness of Pride Month, it is my anticipation that the Navy volition reconsider this egregious decision," Pelosi said successful a statement.

Pelosi claimed that "this spiteful determination … is simply a surrender of a cardinal American value: to grant the bequest of those who worked to physique a amended country."