Almirante de la Marina in Pete Hegesh renowned the Harvey milk ship: I do not agree with that

Washington – The retired admirer from the Navy James Stavridis said on Friday that he disagrees with the secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, ordering the Navy to give the rare step of changing the name of Harvey’s milk of USNS because the milk was gay.

“Because Harvey Milk was gay, we all know. But today, homosexual sailors serve openly and with great pride in the US army. I know many who are homosexuals and are very competent sailors and war fighters,” said Stavridis. “Then when [the] The Secretary of Defense says: ‘Hey, I am renouncing this to restore the warrior spirit,’ I just don’t understand that at all. “

Milk, who was a San Francisco politician in the 1970s and the first openly gay man chosen for a public office in California, served in the Navy for four years during the Korean War. He was forced to resign in 1955 instead of facing a martial court for being gay. A pioneer in the LGBTQ+community, Milk posthumously received the presidential medal of La Libertad in 2012 and honest with a navy ship that bears his name in 2016.

Hegesh’s order is unusual, and its moment, coinciding with the month of pride in June, was intentional, by a military report.com.

Asked to comment on Hegseth, timing her order with the month of pride, a spokesman for the Department of Defense shared a statement from the spokesman chief of the Pentagon Sean Parnell who did not actually answer the question.

“Secretary Hegseth undertakes to ensure that the names attached to all the facilities and assets of the Department of Defense reflect the priorities of the commander in chief, the history of our nation and the warrior spirit. Any possible name change will be announced after the internal revisions are completed,” Parnell said in his statement.

He asked again to comment on the moment of Hegseth’s order to eliminate the name of Milk from the Marina ship, the spokesman for the Department of Defense said alone: ​​”I have no additional information to provide.”

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Stavridis, who served as commander of the Southern United States Command from 2006 to 2009, and as commander of the US European Command. UU. And the supreme commander of the NATO Allied European from 2009 to 2013, said how homosexual soldiers have served in military for centuries.

“I am American Greek. Possibly the greatest general in history, Alexander the Great, was gay,” said Stavridis. “And oh, by the way, [gay] People serve at the highest level of the American cabinet today, as the Secretary of the Treasury, which I think is doing a fairly good job with a hard hand of letters. [Scott] Besent is openly gay. “

“So I don’t understand why we need to change the name of this ship, this moment, and also do it during the pride month,” he added. “Equally of a kind of shot in the arch … I don’t agree with that.”

Someone more who does not agree with this is the former president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Which became Hegseth for the movement.

“The reported decision of the Trump administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis class is a shameful and vindictive deletion of those who fought to break the barriers so that all persecute the American dream,” Peeli said in a statement.

“Our army is the most powerful in the world, but this spiteful movement does not strengthen our national security or the spirit of” Guerrero, “he said.

Gay, lesbian and bisexual people have been openly serving in the US Army. President Joe Biden lifted the prohibition of transgender people who openly serve the army in 2021, but President Donald Trump restored the prohibition this year.