USNS Harvey Milk, ship honoring slain gay rights leader, being renamed USNS Oscar V. Peterson, Hegseth says https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2025/06/27/navy-harvey-milk-oscar-peterson-hegseth Oscar V. Peterson - Wikipedia
Completely concur with the depoliticization of ship naming. But the principle has to stand two years from now when if Republicans want to name a ship after, say, Rush Limbaugh. Except for Medal of Honor recipients who never entered political life, no future ships named after anyone who has not been dead at least 50 years.
Yep, not a fan out of politicizing names of warships. It has a vibe of its more about a political effort, group of people, and politicians with a cause outside the military (even if justified).
Harvey Milk. Was he a sexual predator? Did he like young boys? Rev. Jim Jones enabler? Yes to all of the above if I had to bet on it
I hope that they kept all of the name placards, because about day 10 of the next Democratic President the The USNS Harvey Milk will be back. There will be no Ft. Bragg, Ft. Hood, Ft. Pickett, AP Hill or any of the other traitor general names who are now synonymous with the traitors of the MAGA cult. We have now entered the age of battling names.
Unless there are changes in law about naming, then you are very likely right. That might be the main lesson here: what one President can do by executive order, another can undo just as easily, and so on. The last President was not really serious about these name changes, so he did not codify them in law. If the current President is likewise not serious, then he won’t either.
