Posted on 02/08/2021 3:07:17 PM PST by PROCON
In a report by Task Force One Navy released last week, the Navy is recommending that the service go farther than an existing mandate to rename warships and facilities named for Confederate leaders, and should also “identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language” and rename them.
Task Force One Navy, or TF1N, was formed last summer to address racism, sexism, and other forms of bias within the service. In its final report published Wednesday, the task force said, “Certain Navy ship names have been highlighted by Congress and in the media for connections to confederate or white supremacist ideologies.”
The TF1N final report listed, among its recommendations, that the Navy begin a review of process “to Identify and Rename Navy Assets in Need of Modernization Consistent with Navy Core Values.” The report said the review should “identify assets honoring those associated with the Confederacy and identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language.”
The report comes in addition to a provision in the 2021 defense budget, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), requiring the Secretary of Defense to establish a “commission relating to assigning, modifying, or removing of names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia to assets of the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”
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Close: USNS Richard E. Byrd
are they going to rename Washington DC.
Didnt he own slaves
So the “US” navy will do what, repudiate Washington, Jefferson, Madison and pretty much anyone who had anything to do with the founding of the country?
If so, what’s their own legitimacy? When do they close up shop and head home, wherever that might be? Because it sure isn’t in the States that those people united.
Sounds like some Commander trying to make Admiral. What better way is there, bring up some social issue that will the Congress can make a large issue out for polictical gain?
I’d like to see a thorough examination of the ‘Man Overboard’ dummy, commonly referred to as ‘Oscar’ and present on every commissioned warship. Perhaps the commission could have rotating names, like hurricanes, to make a man overboard drill more representative of our population.
I’d like to suggest ‘Chuck’, ‘Nancy’, ‘AOC’ and ‘Omar’, even though they’d probably never be recovered.
Wouldn’t that be the CSS Robert Byrd? (wink, wink)
Communist Purge Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Name them the USS Snowflake.
I would never,*ever* serve under a piece of excrement like Plugs...or Heels Up.I’d desert!
Replaced by the USS Barack Hussein Obama (Ummm...ummmm...ummmmmmmmmmmmm)
And when there is, I want to serve on the USS N****rLyncher.
As fast as they are pussifying and queering up the military, I fully expect to see Uss Tinker ell Nd Lollipop
Changing the names is utterly inadequate. These ships are irretrievably tainted and should be scuttled.
The US Navy should build an advanced, 21st century invincible super-warship, and name it the USS Robert E Lee!!!!
PHOOEY to the “culturally sensitive” ones!!!!
Several new, ‘woke’ ship names come to mind that the demonrats might actually consider, though they sure as heck shouldn’t:
USS Mao Zedong
USS Vladimir I Lenin
USS Little Potato (Justin Trudeau’s nickname in the PRC)
(AFA the RCN, I would suggest Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Forkstick, in honour of our current Prime Mistake.)
Exactly, they have all been decommissioned
USS Tar Baby
How about USS Mike Hunt?
We will also paint them all pink.
I have already renamed Washington DC.
I just refer to it as “The Swamp”.
Everyone seems to like the new name. :-)
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