To the editor: In line with Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, he’s “taking the politics out of ship naming” by altering the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson (“USNS Harvey Milk is renamed after a WWII sailor in the latest Pentagon diversity purge,” June 27).
Since Hegseth clearly doesn’t need ships to be named after politicians, can we assume that the service USS Ronald Reagan additionally might be renamed? In any case, whereas Milk served in a fight zone through the Korean Warfare, Reagan’s World Warfare II navy service was limited to the U.S. mainland as a result of his poor eyesight.
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
