The Department of Defense made an extraordinary move this week by renaming a ship that was previously known as the USNS Harvey Milk. In his letter, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the objective was to “align with leader and SECDEF goals and SECNAV objectives of reestablishing the hero culture.”
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The extreme left eventually turned crazy, as one might expect. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described it as” a retreat of a basic American benefit: to respect the tradition of those who worked to build a better state… a terrible, cruel destruction of those who fought to break down barriers for everyone chasing the American dream.” Her district includes San Francisco, the home of Harvey Milk. The John Lewis-class inventory oilers, which were designated as the names of various civil rights leaders, including Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were a part of this alleged reputation.
However, this notion is incredibly ridiculous in the beginning.
First of all, these individuals are not simply private. Despite the fact that Milk was a seditious determine who had sex with a 16-year-old fleeing fleeing while he was in his 30s and who more than endorsed violent cult leader Jim Jones, there are now two public institutions named after him ( one in San Francisco and one in New York ). Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for his biography, starred in a movie about his lifestyle.
U.S. Navy ships have traditionally been named after locations ( USS Ohio ) or presidents ( USS Ronald Reagan ), military figures ( USS John Paul Jones ), ideas ( USS Enterprise or USS Hope ), or even Native American tribes ( USS Seminole ) These naming standards are visible because they are not polarizing. We can all applaud JFK’s president and Doris Miller’s World War II courage if you name a fleet after John F. Kennedy or Doris Miller to ensure that you are not offending people.
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However, that’s not what occurred aboard the USS Harvey Milk. When Harvey Milk joined the military, he don’t tell anyone who he really was, according to extreme state senator Scott Wiener, D-Calif. Our nation is then reminding the men and women who serve, and the rest of the world, that we respect and support people for who they are. Of course, that is a strange idea for the US government, which is ultimately not about honoring persons for” who they are” but for what they do. Given that ship-naming is a topic that needs to be at least distantly related to the issue of military preparation.
The rewriting of the Trump administration is a part of a broader shift away from the illiberal wokeness that hampered military recruitment and resulted in an incredible decline in the understanding of our defense strength. Our enemies are much more enthusiastic about a defense that concentrates on which interest groups to pacify than a defense that concentrates on winning deadliness, and it turns out that young men don’t really want to add a defense that is more focused on ethnic signaling than devastating efficiency. In summary, Hegseth is correct when he says that if the goal of branding is to establish a vision for the object being branded, we are much more successful with a USNS Daniel Daly, a ship named after one of the most decorated Marines in American history, than with a USNS Harvey Milk.
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Additionally, the White House and the secretary of defense are credited with the Trump administration’s refreshing willingness to say the obvious. No, the most recent social revolutionary fad should not be used as a canvas for our military. We don’t need a RuPaul from the USNS. Our reverence for our nation’s warriors is what we need, and that means honoring the universal icons who serve as reminders of their bravery and sacrifice.
Editor’s Note: The warrior ethos is returning to America’s military thanks to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership.
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