Harvey Milk: US Navy ship
to be named after lieutenant
forced to resign for being gay
Washington Post,
by
Marisa Iati
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/16/2019 2:54:46 PM
By the time Harvey Milk's supervisors in the US Navy officially questioned him about his sexuality, he had graduated from officer school and served as a diving officer on a submarine rescue ship during the Korean War. Then his superiors caught him in a park that was popular with gay men, his nephew said. The sighting raised questions about Milk's sexual orientation in an era when the military banned gay, lesbian and bisexual service members. Milk was forced to resign. In a move that signalled an about-face on the issue of gay rights, the Navy began to construct the USNS Harvey Milk
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/16/2019 2:59:43 PM (No. 264063)
I'm puking!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1 12/16/2019 3:01:20 PM (No. 264066)
Who in the chain of command or on the ship naming committee thought this was a good idea? Needs reduction in rank and discharge.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 12/16/2019 3:08:39 PM (No. 264072)
Sodomy in the Navy. How enlightening.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/16/2019 3:19:44 PM (No. 264088)
Cripes that will be the Love Boat now won't it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 12/16/2019 3:19:49 PM (No. 264089)
Matt Drudge, David Crock ... homosexuals who did a complete 180'. There's a reason the CIA and FBI and other government positions had very strict application processes. "Had" - past tense.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/16/2019 3:48:30 PM (No. 264109)
What you ARE is your own business. What you DO defines you. Milk's only claim to fame is that he was openly gay and got elected to a San Fran city position where he represented his fellow perverts. How that is enough to have a US Navy ship named after him is sad and shameful. One should feel proud of the ship you served on. What veteran will want to wear a ballcap with Milk's name affixed?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Patriot 1630 12/16/2019 3:56:15 PM (No. 264114)
What I'd like to post would get me permanently banned...tis ain't the Navy my family served for 200 years!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Daisymay 12/16/2019 3:58:44 PM (No. 264115)
My guess the Commander in Chief might have something to say about that!!
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From the New York Times: "Navy Ship Named for Harvey Milk, Slain Gay Rights Leader, Takes Shape"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/us/usns-harvey-milk-navy-ship.html
FTA: "The U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk, a fleet oiler named for the slain gay rights leader (Snip) When completed, the ship will be used to replenish fuel to other Navy ships at sea and jet fuel for aircraft on aircraft carriers, the Navy said. As the ship travels the world, it will help educate people about Mr. Milk’s legacy of L.G.B.T. rights, said his nephew,
Gag me with a spoon... Being a fleet "oiler" sounds intentionally descriptive of the person it is named after. HA!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/16/2019 4:18:24 PM (No. 264133)
I anticipate that they will have a lot of trouble getting real seamen to serve on that ship.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/16/2019 4:20:58 PM (No. 264135)
The Pete Buttgig of the 70's. Yawn.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2019 4:25:42 PM (No. 264140)
Disgusting to have even an outhouse named after this pervert.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/16/2019 4:32:05 PM (No. 264145)
Should be the name of a submarine. Heard the joke about a gay killer whale? He bit the end off of a submarine and sucked out all of the seamen. Rim shot laugh track hahahahaha!!!
Seriously why? He had a movie made about him. This will be the laughing stock of the fleet forever more.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/16/2019 4:33:28 PM (No. 264150)
Next up, the USS Hunter Biden.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
0658 12/16/2019 4:42:17 PM (No. 264157)
I pity to poor seamen that are forced to serve on this ship. They will be the never ending butt of all sarcasm directed at the Navy for their decision to name a ship of the Navy after a pervert. Possibly the Navy could assign all the out of closet Navy members to this ship, they would be among their own, out of the closet, and proud to be in the USS Milk, a soulmate.
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Who doesn't love a "semen" in uniform. I mean "seamen"
And what better statement of "Macho, Macho Man" than being stationed on the USS Harvey Milk
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GO3 12/16/2019 4:59:01 PM (No. 264164)
Now all we need is the lash and rum.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 12/16/2019 5:12:08 PM (No. 264172)
I think its wonderful. A tanker named after a homosexual. Both are great at pumping fluids into something else.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chumley 12/16/2019 5:23:41 PM (No. 264177)
I really feel bad for the poor sailors who will be forced to serve on that laughing stock. Even the most dedicated fast burner will hang his head in shame and lie about his ship. They'll tell people they serve on the USS Benedict Arnold or the Ted Bundy.
Worse, if they go around touting the joys of gayness like the article suggests, they will be assumed to be gay themselves. The military as always misused and abused its people simply because they can, but this is too much. I would seriously consider desertion.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/16/2019 5:50:11 PM (No. 264202)
Evil. Pure evil.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/16/2019 6:42:29 PM (No. 264253)
Let's not forget that Harv was a big promoter/enabler of the Rev. Jim Jones.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pixelero 12/16/2019 6:53:47 PM (No. 264262)
No homophobia here, and while the lifestyle is not for me, each to their own.
However, the ship’s choice of namesake does not seem emblematic of martial virtue.
As some might have suggested, requests for transfer will commence on receiving orders.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bobn.t 12/16/2019 7:13:54 PM (No. 264276)
This is being forced upon the Navy by someone and the high-ranking brass are afraid to speak against it.
Disgusting.
I'd hate to have to be a Navy member assigned to the Harvey Milk.
Yet the Navy brass wanted to, and still wants to, to destroy the CPO Eddie Gallagher.
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U.S.S Rump Ranger ??
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
padiva 12/16/2019 8:49:08 PM (No. 264337)
Can you imagine the nicknames that this ship will have?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/16/2019 8:53:07 PM (No. 264341)
"Manhole Productions presents the South Sea saga,
"Buggery on The High Seas""
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/16/2019 9:51:31 PM (No. 264362)
As several posters have noted...how would you like to tell your grandkids that you served on a ship named after a rump wrangler?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/17/2019 12:09:18 AM (No. 264414)
It was an Obama Administration decision to name that ship for Harvey Milk a San Francisco gay man and liberal Democrat politician who was murdered. This ship will be special, because it will be the only naval vessel, probably in the entire world, named to memorialize a gay man. So in that respect, to make the ship a happy ship the Navy should assign a volunteer gay and lesbian crew to that ship. They could also paint a rainbow on the bow of the ship.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
greggojo 12/17/2019 1:42:57 AM (No. 264441)
Harvey Milk's major accomplishment on SF's Bd of Supervisors (i.e. city council) was thinking up the pooper scooper law for pet owners. Only progressives would champion such a person as a hero.The Left is responsible for so much misinformation, e. g Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were innocent victims of racism, Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay (it was a drug deal gone bad), police brutality is rampant in America, all white people are racists, the legally baseless partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump etc. etc. Being a Leftist means living a fact free existence.
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Let's think of names the sailors will call it.USNS
1. Twinky
2. Faggot
3. Fag
4. Fruitloop
5. ???
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/17/2019 8:07:12 AM (No. 264564)
Will likely supersede the USS Krishna as the strangest name for a US Navy ship.
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