Disgusting.
Enemy ships better watch their *sses, literally.
Seriously though, :( this is a GD disgrace. Rename it, Mr. Trump!!
I hate my government. I wish we could alter or abolish it.
Won’t be finished before Trump, so perhaps Trump can change the naming.
Just imagine you woke up one morning and suddenly you were Secretary of the Navy of the greatest naval power in the history of mankind.
There it is, on your desk for signature, the most important document to be signed that day.
“Harvey Milk”
Now, if you have an IQ above room temperature or more integrity than a rabbit in heat, haven’t you already turned in your resignation notice?
Seriously.
I’m guessing her sailors will reply with the Hull number when asked “What ship are you on?”
A warship has a personality. It is a deadly, dangerous disgrace to give such a name to a boat.
The continuation of the American foundations destruction. Naming a naval ship after a gay child molester
All Rear Admirals, no Chiefs, oh wait...
Nick, maybe Trump will or won’t change the name, I don’t know. Do you have any pics of Trump on the same plane as 0bama? Any deals there?
Do you know what a broken glass election is? This is it. Figure it out. Are you going to vote 3rd party and elect Hitlery?
If so, admit it and stop with the scared to post out in the open crap about Trump. I’m tired of people who will do stupid things like I did in 1992; I voted for Perot.
Get on board or shove off. You got a lot more chances of saving the republic with Trump than with anyone else.
Well, of COURSE they named an oiler after a gay icon.
Oilers are FULL of Lube. . . .
(grinning madly, diving for cover. . . )
I know a lot of people find it humorous, and I understand why, but I cannot bring myself to appreciate it.
To me, symbolism means something. The American Flag STILL means something to me, I served under it, my father was buried under it. The Pledge of Allegiance means something to me. Many of the traditions of the American military mean something to me.
And the name of a ship means something to me. Thousands of men have fought and died on US naval vessels. A ship does come to mean something to the people who have served and are serving on them. I know people don’t understand, but you talk to any man who served on the USS Enterprise in WWII, and they aren’t going to tell you it was a big hunk of gray metal that floated in the water even if they DID hate serving on it at the time. It was family, in a way. When they had liberty with friends in some of the best and most meaningful times of their lives, years later, that is all associated with that ship in their minds, as if the vessel itself participated, as it did.
They are going to tell you it was home, there was *something* animate in some way about it. It seemed to be living. It meant something. When she was scrapped and cut up for razor blades because no funds could be found to preserve her, grown men cried, the same way men have when watching a ship they have served on sink in front of their eyes. It isn’t just a hunk of metal. It is different.
And many men who have served on many ships, speak about their service on there in a way that means something different
To name a ship in this fashion is a deliberate, arrogant, and contemptuous attempt to insult, ridicule, and diminish the service of any sailor on any ship, because they are, in essence, letting those sailors know EXACTLY what they think of the military in general, that branch of the service, that ship, and every person who serves on it.
There was an Arleigh Burke class destroyer commissioned a little while back, I got to see her under construction over a long period of time, and her name was the USS Michael Murphy. She was named for a US Navy SEAL who gave his life valorously and unselfishly to save the lives of the men he loved and who served as brothers with him.
And now, they will name a ship after Harvey Milk, it may not be regular Navy, and it may not be a warship, but there will be American sailors serving on it, and if it comes to war, those men are going to have to fight and may die on that vessel.
Both Lt. Michael Murphy and Harvey Milk loved men, so to some people, this is just fine. Harvey Milk loved men, and his idea of showing his love was to promote virus infected group sex bath houses, because that is something society just cannot live without.
Lt. Michael Murphy loved men too, his men. The men he served with as brothers, and for whom he gave his own life so that they had a chance to live.
All of you tell me: Whose love is greater, whose love is a travesty, and whose love is deserving of having a naval vessel named after him?
This makes me so angry, I just cannot put into words how deliberately cruel, and denigrating this is, and is specifically meant to be.
It is a travesty, and the most astonishingly loathsome, vile, treacherous and base thing about this is that it is being perpetrated by the highest people in our own military and the highest people in our own government.
I just cannot bring myself to laugh about it.
While I disagree with his politics and life style, he was a Navy veteran:
“He joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and served on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) as a diving officer in San Diego. Milk came from a Navy family. He was honorably discharged from service as a lieutenant junior grade, according to USNI.”
Navy to name ship after pedophile predator....Obama’s america.
Any sailors assigned to such a vessel will probably have to fight their way out of bars, when on shore leave, or remain on board.
This is not just offensive. It is a flagrant denial of common sense.
No. One does not condone the Milk murder. But neither can one condone the murder of common sense; putting the innocent unnecessarily in harm's way.