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Obama may order the Secretary of the Navy to name a U.S. Navy warship after Harvey Milk !!!
>" there was grumbling from conservative commentators over Congressman Bob Filner’s petition to have a ship named after San Francisco activist Harvey Milk. Milk, who had served as an officer in the Navy, was assassinated soon after becoming one of the first openly gay men to be elected to public office in California. "<
Probably not as much of a controversary than when President Obama signed off on naming a Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship after Cesar Chavez who described his short service in the U.S. Navy “the two worst years of my life.”There's have been a number of controversary naming of U.S. Navy ships.
During the 1990's during the Clinton administration while drasticly cutting away at the fleet, social engineering was being forced upon the Navy allowing women to serve on warships and to propagate with the male sailors. This called for building a new class of ship, the Navy's maternity hospital ships to follow the Navy's Carrier Battle Groups around the oceans of the world. These new ships were to have been the USS Hillary Clinton class Maternity Hospital Ships. But Clintons downsizing of the fleet also axed these ships. ;- )
A couple of years ago it was suggested naming a Navy garbage scow after President Obama. Only problem was that the Navy doesn't assign names to scows but numbers. Sorry Barack.
Well here's a list of twenty six US Navy ship naming controversies in recent times and the history behind the naming of these ships. It comes from no better source than the U.S. Naval Institute.
Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies
>" In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.S. Navy had no formal procedure for naming ships. It wasn’t until 1819 that Congress passed an act stating “all of the ships, of the Navy of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy.” The secretary has fulfilled this role ever since, even though the passage expressly assigning authority for designating ship names was omitted when the U.S. Code was revised in 1925.
In addition to recommendations from Congress and the president, the secretary traditionally has been guided by a rather loose set of naming conventions—cruisers were to be named for battles, attack submarines for U.S. cities, destroyers for Navy and Marine heroes, and so forth. Controversy has erupted whenever the choice of a name strayed too far from those conventions, was seemingly swayed by politics, or deemed inappropriate for various reasons.
Ship-name controversies date to the early days of the Republic, but have become more prevalent in the latter part of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. "< The 26 ships. -> Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies | USNI News
>" there was grumbling from conservative commentators over Congressman Bob Filner’s petition to have a ship named after San Francisco activist Harvey Milk. Milk, who had served as an officer in the Navy, was assassinated soon after becoming one of the first openly gay men to be elected to public office in California. "<
Probably not as much of a controversary than when President Obama signed off on naming a Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship after Cesar Chavez who described his short service in the U.S. Navy “the two worst years of my life.”There's have been a number of controversary naming of U.S. Navy ships.
During the 1990's during the Clinton administration while drasticly cutting away at the fleet, social engineering was being forced upon the Navy allowing women to serve on warships and to propagate with the male sailors. This called for building a new class of ship, the Navy's maternity hospital ships to follow the Navy's Carrier Battle Groups around the oceans of the world. These new ships were to have been the USS Hillary Clinton class Maternity Hospital Ships. But Clintons downsizing of the fleet also axed these ships. ;- )
A couple of years ago it was suggested naming a Navy garbage scow after President Obama. Only problem was that the Navy doesn't assign names to scows but numbers. Sorry Barack.
Well here's a list of twenty six US Navy ship naming controversies in recent times and the history behind the naming of these ships. It comes from no better source than the U.S. Naval Institute.
Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies
>" In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.S. Navy had no formal procedure for naming ships. It wasn’t until 1819 that Congress passed an act stating “all of the ships, of the Navy of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy.” The secretary has fulfilled this role ever since, even though the passage expressly assigning authority for designating ship names was omitted when the U.S. Code was revised in 1925.
In addition to recommendations from Congress and the president, the secretary traditionally has been guided by a rather loose set of naming conventions—cruisers were to be named for battles, attack submarines for U.S. cities, destroyers for Navy and Marine heroes, and so forth. Controversy has erupted whenever the choice of a name strayed too far from those conventions, was seemingly swayed by politics, or deemed inappropriate for various reasons.
Ship-name controversies date to the early days of the Republic, but have become more prevalent in the latter part of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. "< The 26 ships. -> Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies | USNI News
