Posted on 07/28/2016 9:04:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The United States Navy will be naming one of their ships after gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a report by the U.S. Naval Institute, which cites a Congressional notice obtained by USNI News.
The July 14 notice, which was signed by Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, indicates that he plans to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler, USNS Harvey Milk, according to USNI.
The ship is reportedly being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, California.
A Department of the Navy spokesman did not have a comment on the report.
Milk, who moved from New York to settle in San Francisco in the seventies, was elected to the SF Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. In 1972, he and his partner Scott Smith – portrayed by James Franco in the film “Milk” – opened Castro Camera on 575 Castro Street, which he operated until his assassination in 1978. His involvement in San Francisco’s gay rights movement earned him the name “Mayor of Castro Street.”
He joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and served on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) as a diving officer in San Diego. Milk came from a Navy family. He was honorably discharged from service as a lieutenant junior grade, according to USNI.
On Nov. 27, 1978, Milk was shot inside San Francisco City Hall. He was wearing his U.S. Navy diver’s belt buckle at the time, according to the report.
Ever since the 2011 repeal of the Department of Defense’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, California lawmakers have pushed to name a ship after Milk.
“This action by the U.S. Secretary of the Navy will further send a green light to all the brave men and women who serve our nation that honesty, acceptance and authenticity are held up among the highest ideals of our military,” Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk told the San Diego LGBT Weekly in 2012.
On Thursday, San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, who signed a resolution urging the Navy to name a ship after Milk, applauded the Navy's apparent decision.
“This is an incredible day for the LGBT community and for our country. As a gay man and a San Franciscan, I'm incredibly proud that the Navy is honoring Harvey Milk — and the entire LGBT community — by naming a ship after him," Weiner said.
"This momentous decision sends a powerful message around the world about who we are as a country and the values we hold," he said. "When Harvey Milk served in the military, he couldn't tell anyone who he truly was. Now our country is telling the men and women who serve, and the entire world, that we honor and support people for who they are. Harvey Milk's strength continues to reverberate throughout our city, our country, and the world.”
Won’t be finished before Trump, so perhaps Trump can change the naming.
Just imagine you woke up one morning and suddenly you were Secretary of the Navy of the greatest naval power in the history of mankind.
There it is, on your desk for signature, the most important document to be signed that day.
“Harvey Milk”
Now, if you have an IQ above room temperature or more integrity than a rabbit in heat, haven’t you already turned in your resignation notice?
Seriously.
Sorry to tell you, but all of our leaders promote the LGBT agenda. They are a far greater threat to our freedoms than the Muslims.
alas, the current Secy of the Navy is an Obamanation and fully on-board with the “progressive” agenda.
I’m guessing her sailors will reply with the Hull number when asked “What ship are you on?”
This is not a “Navy” ship. It is being built for the Military Sealift Command. The ship will be officered and crewed by civilian civil service mariners. The only Navy personnel on board will be a few radiomen and signalmen led by a junior officer. Their job is to handle communications.
as well as, "any port in a storm"
CORRECTION: It HAS already been done.
really set the mood! http://gw2.gaywelcome.com/ll-news-img/0000/00/00/s400x300-h-yes/ll-nws-photo-1429465880-ikhfe-674900559.jpg
A warship has a personality. It is a deadly, dangerous disgrace to give such a name to a boat.
The continuation of the American foundations destruction. Naming a naval ship after a gay child molester
USS Ben Dover ?
All Rear Admirals, no Chiefs, oh wait...
Gadzooks-- Hollywood rebooted another film... 
to their PC standards?
Thanks God I'm dead... 
and don't have to put up with this crap!
Me, too... 
Cary--
The Japanese have nothing like this... 
so it must be the USS Harvey Milk's sister ship, the USS RuPaul.
It will be a punishment duty.
Misbehave or piss off your superior and BAM, you are shipped off to the Harvey Milk.
Nick, maybe Trump will or won’t change the name, I don’t know. Do you have any pics of Trump on the same plane as 0bama? Any deals there?
Do you know what a broken glass election is? This is it. Figure it out. Are you going to vote 3rd party and elect Hitlery?
If so, admit it and stop with the scared to post out in the open crap about Trump. I’m tired of people who will do stupid things like I did in 1992; I voted for Perot.
Get on board or shove off. You got a lot more chances of saving the republic with Trump than with anyone else.
Well, of COURSE they named an oiler after a gay icon.
Oilers are FULL of Lube. . . .
(grinning madly, diving for cover. . . )
Never had more meaning than it does now with this latest pronouncement.
It is a highly Photoshopped spoof.
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