D efense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday the USNS Harvey Milk is being renamed the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, after he ordered the Navy to strike the name of the pioneering gay rights activist ...

Navy Chief Watertender Oscar Verner Peterson died while performing damage control on his ship during the Battle of the Coral ...

Pete Hegseth reveals new name for USNS Harvey Milk as part of mission to take ‘politics out of ship naming’ - ‘People want to be proud of the ship they’re sailing in,’ defense secretary says ...

The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.

"People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in announcing the ship named after the gay rights leader would now be called the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the new name for the naval ship USNS Harvey Milk will be the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. "We are taking the politics out of ship naming," Hegseth said in a statement to ...

It was Milk who commissioned artist Gilbert Baker to create a symbol to represent the LGBTQ+ community. Until then, the triangle had been employed, which was used by the Nazis to denote homosexuality ...

John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (TAO-206), center, conducts a replenishment at sea with USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) on Dec. 13, 2024. US Navy Photo.

The US Navy plans to remove the name of gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships, and may change the titles of other vessels honouring civil rights leaders.

I say to my community today, with every breath of my being and the weight of our history at my back, we will not be erased. Not now. Not ever. On Nov. 6, 2021, a ship was christened in San Diego ...

The USNS Harvey Milk is part of a fleet of replenishment oilers named after civil rights advocates including Chief Justice Earl Warren and US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.