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 Pentagon, led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, plans to spend $10 million returning a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the U.S. Navy was renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, named for one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials in San Francisco.

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.

After Hegseth boosted Doug Wilson’s CNN interview slamming women voting and gay sex, the Christian nationalist told the ...