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The US Navy has been directed to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights activist and Navy veteran, as part of a broader initiative by President Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) references within the military.

The upcoming renaming has not yet been officially confirmed but was outlined in an internal memo, multiple defense sources told Military.com and other media outlets on Tuesday.

The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to honor Milk’s service and activism, and it was christened in 2021 by a transgender veteran.

Milk, who became an LGBT icon as the first openly gay official elected in the state of California, served in the US Navy in the 1950s before being discharged due to his sexual orientation. Less than a year after he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Milk was assassinated in 1978 by a fellow board member who had clashed with him over city policy.

The renaming aligns with the Trump administration’s efforts to reestablish a “warrior culture” and remove DEI initiatives from federal agencies.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the ship’s new name has not yet been chosen.

The decision, which comes during Pride Month, has drawn harsh criticism from Democrats, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemning the move as a “shameful, vindictive erasure” of civil rights figures’ legacies. California Governor Gavin Newsom called the decision a sign of “Trump’s contempt for the very values our veterans fight to protect.”

READ MORE: US Supreme Court backs Trump’s transgender military ban

The Navy has not yet officially announced a new name for the vessel, and it remains unclear whether other John Lewis-class ships – all named after civil rights leaders – will also be renamed. Other ships in the fleet are named after African-American civil rights leader John Lewis, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, former US Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and women’s rights activists and abolitionists Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth.

https://www.rt.com/news/618622-pentagon-gay-warship-renamed/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

not him....

A couple of days ago, I was going to suggest calling this ship "Elon Musk"... but he's gone out of fashion with Trump...

MEANWHILE:

The SpaceX CEO has claimed that his company “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,”after President Donald Trump threatened to terminate all US government subsidies and contracts with Elon Musk’s firms.

Trump and Musk engaged in a dramatic exchange on social media on Thursday over the US president’s “Big and Beautiful” federal tax and spending bill, which the former White House government efficiency czar had blasted as a “pork-filled, disgusting abomination” that would push the US into “debt slavery.”

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump stated on Truth Social, arguing that the only reason the Tesla CEO “went CRAZY” about the legislation was because it would cut tax credits for purchasers of his electric vehicles.

“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk responded in a post on X just minutes later.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is the only US spacecraft currently certified and capable of sending American astronauts to space. NASA has relied on it to deliver cargo and crew to the International Space Station since 2020, following a long hiatus after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

Boeing’s competitor Starliner project suffered years of delays and technical malfunctions. Its first crewed flight last June – originally scheduled for 2017 – ended with two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the ISS, after the spacecraft was deemed unsafe for return. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams safely returned to Earth only in March, aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, after Trump urged Musk to help rescue the duo, while criticizing his predecessor Joe Biden for leaving them “stranded.”

SpaceX has received more than $20 billion in contracts from NASA, the Air Force, and other US agencies since 2008, becoming one of the biggest federal contractors. It remains unclear how serious Musk’s threat was, and how it would affect the US space program.

READ MORE: Musk agrees ‘Trump should be impeached’

Earlier this year, NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos extended their seat-sharing agreement, which allows Americans to travel to the ISS aboard Soyuz spacecraft, through 2027.

https://www.rt.com/news/618718-musk-spacex-dragon-decommissioning/

 

SO THE RUSSIANS ARE STILL IN THE GOOD BOOKS....

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.rt.com/news/618717-musk-trump-ingratitude-impeachment/

Musk agrees ‘Trump should be impeached’

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.