Crew members from USS Mount Whitney, the U.S. 6th Fleet flagship, are shown May 13, 2025. The ship's crew of about 300 consists of Navy sailors and civil service mariners.

A new name for the Harvey Milk was not given but, according to the memo, Hegseth and Phelan are planning to announce the new name aboard the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned Navy ship.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor ...

Navy ships are among the most potent ... which denote a ship as an aircraft carrier. A good example is the mighty USS GERALD R. FORD, regarded as one of the most lethal combat platforms in the ...

US Navy Photo A West Coast destroyer departed on Tuesday as the latest ship to deploy in support of operations in U.S. Northern Command, reads a statement from U.S. Fleet Forces. USS Sampson (DDG ...

While the renaming is rare, the Biden administration also changed the names of two Navy ships in 2023 as part of the effort to remove Confederate names from U.S. military installations. The USS ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename an oil ship named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk, a move that pointedly comes at the start of Pride Month. Military.com first ...

The Navy may rename the USNS Harvey Milk, named for the 1970s gay civil rights activist, at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk ... he held posts as an operations and dive officer aboard two submarine rescue ships — the USS Chanticleer and the USS ...

Milk was commissioned in the Navy in 1951 and served as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the Korean War. He was forced to resign in 1955 after it was discovered ...