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 within the newest Pentagon range 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 will likely be renamed? In any case, whereas Milk served in a fight zone through the Korean Struggle, Reagan’s World Struggle II army service was restricted to the U.S. mainland as a consequence of his poor eyesight.
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
