{"id":47715,"date":"2025-08-13T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=47715"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:46","slug":"u-s-navy-harvey-milk-is-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/u-s-navy-harvey-milk-wird-umbenannt\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy: \"Harvey Milk\" is renamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"619\">All eleven units of the US Navy's John L. Lewis-class fuel supply ships - including those still under construction - bear the names of famous civil rights activists. Not everyone likes that. Now a particularly controversial case is causing a stir: The ship currently in the shipyard <strong data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"521\">\"Harvey Milk\"<\/strong> is to be renamed quickly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"1127\">The reason: Harvey Milk, who served as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship \"USS KITTIWAKE\" during the Korean War and had to leave the navy in 1955, came out publicly as homosexual around 70 years ago. After his military service, he became politically active in California and in 1978 became the first openly gay politician to be elected to public office - as a city councillor and deputy mayor of San Francisco. Shortly afterwards, he was murdered because of his LGBTQ+ commitment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1618\">But now - so it is said - the <strong data-start=\"1170\" data-end=\"1237\">\"Priorities of the President and his Minister of Defence\"<\/strong> postponed. The naming is to be brought \"in line\". The corresponding order from the Minister of Defence <strong>Pete Hegseth<\/strong> and Navy Secretary <strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1401\">John Phelan<\/strong> was originally not due to be announced until Pride Month in June, but was publicised ahead of schedule - and sparked fierce protests. Both political groups and civil rights movements voiced harsh criticism. The cost of the measure is not known.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1759\">The Navy itself is obviously watching the debate with consternation - and feels increasingly degraded to a pawn in political symbolism.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"2068\">Since the end of June, the ship has officially borne the name <strong data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1840\">\"Oscar V. Peterson\"<\/strong> - named after a petty officer (\"stoker\") who selflessly saved his ship in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942. He was posthumously honoured with the <strong data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2028\">Medal of Honour<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"2037\" data-end=\"2053\">Purple Heart<\/strong> excellent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2137\"><strong data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2137\">That's how it works - say some. A scandal - say the others.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alle elf Einheiten der John-L.-Lewis-Klasse Betriebsstoffversorger der US Navy \u2013 auch die sich noch im Bau befindlichen \u2013 tragen die Namen ber\u00fchmter B\u00fcrgerrechtlerinnen und B\u00fcrgerrechtler. Das gef\u00e4llt nicht jedem. Nun sorgt ein besonders brisanter Fall f\u00fcr Aufsehen: Das aktuell in der Werft liegende Schiff \u201eHarvey Milk\u201c soll z\u00fcgig umbenannt werden. Der Grund: Harvey Milk, der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[10338,2353,10339,3247,10340,332,394,10341],"class_list":["post-47715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-buergerrechte","tag-harvey-milk","tag-marinepolitik-usa","tag-rettungsschiff","tag-seeschlacht-korallenmeer","tag-u-boot","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-harvey-milk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48969,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47715\/revisions\/48969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}