Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

[DonViejo]

Source: USNI News

By: Sam LaGrone
July 28, 2016 1:13 PM • Updated: July 28, 2016 4:13 PM

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The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News. The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.

The Secretary of the Navy’s office is deferring releasing additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday.

Mabus has said the John Lewis-class – named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) – would be named after civil rights leaders.

Other names in the class include former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren whose court ruled to desegregate U.S. schools, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women’s right activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth.

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Read more: https://news.usni.org/2016/07/28/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk

[jpak]

1. Trumpolyte heads explode

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. You are too polyte. . :)

[jpak]

7. LOL!!!!111

[Beartracks]

18. Is that "trumplodyte"?

Like troglodyte...



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[targetpractice]

2. Wow! This is AMAZING...

I'm verklepmt from reading this.

I knew that when "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed and the US Military recognized us as equal citizens... The dominos would fall quickly.

Thanks, President Obama!

[thesquanderer]

3. In the Navy...

[Coventina]

20. Dang! You beat me to it!!

[yallerdawg]

4. I did not know Harvey Milk was in the Navy!

Puts a whole new spin on:

[LongTomH]

15. He joined the Navy during the Korean War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk#Early_career

After graduation, Milk joined the United States Navy during the Korean War. He served aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) as a diving officer. He later transferred to Naval Station, San Diego to serve as a diving instructor. In 1955, he was discharged from the Navy at the rank of lieutenant, junior grade.

[displacedtexan]

5. That is so cool!

Every time I go shopping or out to eat in the Castro, I think of him and all he did to make people's lives better.

[jmowreader]

8. I really like Navy ships named after people who were sailors

According to Mayor Milk's Wiki page, he was a Navy diving officer.

[Tactical Peek]

17. Not unlike the USNS Cesar Chavez

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=60467

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, former governor of Mississippi, keeps the faith.

[Skittles]

9. wow

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R

[Paladin]

11. Good. (nt)

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Conservative Homophobe heads explode all over the country at this announcement.

[uppityperson]

13. Now that is cool

[Sophiegirl]

14. Awesome!! n/t

[unitedwethrive]

16. Nice!!!

[Native]

19. Another article at CNN too!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/29/politics/us-navy-intends-to-name-ship-after-harvey-milk/index.html

[keithbvadu2]

21. The GOP should have only one complaint:::::::

'Fair and balanced' FOX should jump right out there and demand that a ship be named after republican Ed Schrock.

[Ohio Joe]

22. K&R - nt

[doxyluv13]

23. USNS Harvey Milk is an oiler...

....so it will be supplying the fleet with thousands of gallons of lube for years to come!

[mountain grammy]

24. A great honor.. I'm happy to hear this.