Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gives remarks during a conference in Singapore on Saturday. (Anupam Nath/AP)

By Dan Lamothe

The Pentagon is planning to strip the name from a Navy ship that honors the gay rights icon Harvey Milk and could expand the purge to include other vessels recognizing prominent civil rights figures, defense officials said Tuesday, the latest move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to impose the Trump administration’s will on America’s culture wars.

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