Hegseth announces new name of US navy ship that honored gay rights icon Harvey Milk

Defense secretary said the vessel will be renamed after Oscar V Peterson to take politics out of ship naming'

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has formally announced that the US navy supply vessel named in honor of the gay rights activist Harvey Milk is to be renamed after Oscar V Peterson, a chief petty officer who received the congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the second world war.

We are taking the politics out of ship naming," Hegseth announced on Friday on X.