The US Secretary of Defense Pitt Hegsheth gave command to Naval to change the name of one of his military ships bearing his name Harvey Milka veteran of the body and an activist for homosexual rights murdered in the late 1970s, today became known by a specialized media and US officials.

The Military website is based on an official who does not name, and explains that he also had access to a Navy document that the initiative is part of Pitt Hegsez’s will to “restore war culture” in the US.

Reuters also cites an American official who asked not to be named, and said that the directive to change the name of the ship came from the Hegsheth office.

In 2016, the US Navy had announced that it would give one of its new tankers the name of Harvey Mill, a veteran of the body who later became one of the first open gay citizens to be elected to a public office (as a member of the Council of the Council).

Another US media, CBS News, said, for his part, that other ships may be being renamed, including two names of former Judges of the Supreme Court, Progressive Ruth Beder Ginsberg and First Affarian.

Asked by the French Agency, the Pentagon responded through his spokesman, Sean Parnell, that “any possible change of name” would “be announced after the internal procedures have been finalized”.

Pitt Hegschez “wants to ensure that the names of all the facilities and resources of the Ministry of Defense can reflect the priorities of the Supreme Commander, the History of our Nation and the War Spirit,” he added.

Following Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency in January, the Republican government is conducting an extensive attack on policies promoting diversity.

A physiognomy of the Democratic Opposition, Nancy Pelosi strongly criticized the “shameful and revengeful deletion of those who fought to fall for the dams and allow everyone to live the American dream”.

“This malicious initiative does not reinforce our national security or war. It is, on the other hand, abandonment of a fundamental American value: to honor the inheritance of those who worked to build a better country, “he added.

The leader of the minority of Democrats in the Senate Chuck Summer said the move to renaming the tanker is “disgusting” and is a “blatant discreet treatment”.

“Hegschez should be ashamed and taken back to it right away,” Smerher wrote on X.

Harvey Mill was born in 1930 in New York and served in the US Navy during the Korean War in the 1950s.

In San Francisco, he later became the first open gay municipal councilor in California and a front -line figure in the battle for the rights of the homosexual community. It was assassinated in 1978 and the Navy’s refueling tanker was named in 2021.