Navy replenishment oiler, which was previously named for gay rights leader, has been renamed for World War II hero Oscar V.

The military on June 27 officially changed the name of a ship honoring the late gay icon Harvey Milk, Defense Secretary Pete ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a video Friday revealing the new name for a navy oil ship previously named after Harvey ...

An L.A. Times reader asks, 'Since Hegseth clearly doesn't want ships to be named after politicians, can we assume that the ...

They said ships shouldn't be named for civil rights leaders, but only the one named for the LGBTQ+ leader appears to be ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renamed the USNS Harvey Milk to USNS Oscar V Peterson, citing a desire to remove politics from ...

Defense Secretary and former Fox host Pete Hegseth said several weeks ago that the Navy supply vessel formerly known as the ...

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.

The following is the June 30, 2025, Congressional Research Service Report on Navy Ship Names. From the report Overview of ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of a naval vessel honouring a gay rights pioneer in a landmark ...