U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the U.S., Navy to rename one of its ship’s that is named after LGBTQ civil rights pioneer and icon Harvey Milk, according to reports today by Military.com.

The website, “the leading news and information website for U.S. service members, veterans and their families,” called the move “a rare step.”

Reporter Konstantin Toropin writes that Military.com had “reviewed a memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy — the official who holds the power to name Navy ships” — that describes plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, and that a defense official had confirmed the intention and had told Military.com that Navy Secretary John Phelan was “ordered to do so by Hegseth.”

That same official also confirmed that “the timing of the announ

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