{"id":67146,"date":"2016-07-29T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67146"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:07:13","slug":"uss-harvey-milk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67146","title":{"rendered":"USS Harvey Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67147\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Lewis-Class-Oiler-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"John-Lewis-Class-Oiler\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Lewis-Class-Oiler-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Lewis-Class-Oiler-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Lewis-Class-Oiler-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Lewis-Class-Oiler.jpg 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We told you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29682\">more than four years ago<\/a> that Ray Mabus had run out of names of heroic former Navy\/Marine Corps folks for ships&#8217; names and he was considering naming one after gay rights icon Harvey Milk. Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2016\/07\/28\/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk\">USNI News reports<\/a> that day is here;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Navy\u2019s office is deferring releasing additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mabus has said the John Lewis-class \u2013 named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) \u2013 would be named after civil rights leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Naming a ship after Milk, \u201cwill further send a green light to all the brave men and women who serve our nation that honesty, acceptance and authenticity are held up among the highest ideals of our military,\u201d said Milk\u2019s nephew Stuart Milk in a statement to San Diego LGBT Weekly in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We told you more than four years ago that Ray Mabus had run out of names &hellip; <a title=\"USS Harvey Milk\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67146\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Harvey Milk<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}