US war ships will have new patrons. The determinant is the “warrior ethos”

The administration of US President Donald Trump began reviewing the names of the Navy. If they do not fit into the “ethos of a warrior”, they will be changed – the politician of the Democratic Party Nancy Pelosi informed.

Defense Minister Pete HegeSeth began with the tanker USNS Harvey Milk, named after the murdered leader of the Movement for Homosexual Rights and a Navy veteran from the time of the Korean War. According to the media, the next ones are to be named for the leaders of the Movement for Civil Rights.

The American Portal Politico reported, citing two sources in the Pentagon, that the information about the change of tanker's name was to be made public on June 13. This week, however, Pelosia was publicized, the former announcer of the Chamber of Representatives, representing California in Congress.

“The decision to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships by Trump's administration is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought for breaking the barriers so that everyone can follow the American dream. Our army is the most powerful in the world, but this malicious movement does not strengthen our national security or the ethos of a warrior,” she said in a statement on its website.

On Tuesday, the CBS station has announced that the American Navy is also considering changing the names of other supply units, including Usns Thurgood Marshall, Usns Ruth Bader Ginsburg and USNS Harriet Tubman. Both Marshall and Ginsburg were black judges of the Supreme Court, and Tubman with a black abolitionist who helped slaves to escape from the American South through the so -called underground railway, i.e. the road networks, houses and people smuggling fugitives.

Several times it happened that the US Navy changed the names of its units, as in 2023, when at the request of Congress she was renamed by the cruiser of the USS CHANCELORSVILLE and the USNS Maury research ship. At Chancellorsville at the turn of April and May 1863, confederates from the rebellious southern states won a great victory over the north army. The ship is currently swimming as USS Robert Smalls, named after the black slave, who during the same war abducted the confederation sailing ship and gave it to the Union's army. The research vessel, named after the Navy Oceanographer and the former confederate, Matthew Fontaine Maury, was renamed usns Marie Tharp, who developed the first professional maps of the Atlantic Ocean.

The administration of President Joe Biden also removed the names of the Confederation generals from several military bases, but Trump in March ordered them to be restored. (PAP)

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