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(56,582 posts) Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:10 PM Jul 2016

Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

https://news.usni.org/2016/07/28/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk

I love Secretary Mabus. Does this Mississippian's heart proud.

The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.

The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.

The Secretary of the Navy’s office is deferring releasing additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday.

Mabus has said the John Lewis-class – named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) – would be named after civil rights leaders.

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WOW! That's great! K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RKP5637 Jul 2016 #1

Milk was a navy officer left-of-center2012 Jul 2016 #2

RKP5637

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1. WOW! That's great! K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:22 PM

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left-of-center2012

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2. Milk was a navy officer

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Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:23 PM

Jul 2016

After graduation, Milk joined the United States Navy during the Korean War.
He served aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) as a diving officer.
He later transferred to Naval Station, San Diego to serve as a diving instructor.
In 1955, he was discharged from the Navy at the rank of lieutenant, junior grade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk#Early_life

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