The USNS
Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego recently in a service
attended by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Milk's nephew Stuart. The ship
takes its name from the first openly gay elected official in California
history. Milk, who passed away in 1978, served on the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors. The U.S.S. Harvey Milk is just one of six new ships to be named
after U.S. “civil rights leaders.”
Who knows what ships of
the future U.S. fleet will be named as it gets ever woker?
Perhaps there will soon be a U.S.S. Malcolm X, a U.S.S. Louis Farrakhan, a
U.S.S. RuPaul, a U.S.S. Rachel Levine, and a U.S.S. Katie
Hill.
In related news,
satellite images show that China has
built large-scale mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
and destroyer in its arid Northwestern region in order to prepare for a
potential future naval engagement in the event of a war between the two nations.
China has dramatically upgraded its military in recent years, particularly its
navy, now the largest in the world, as it seeks undeniable military supremacy
in the South China Sea, Indo-Pacific region, and as regards Taiwan.
The
United States Navy, on the other hand, is seeking undeniable supremacy in the
use of proper pronouns while addressing non-binary sailors-- and in “open and
welcoming” bathroom and locker room usage.
Addressing
the challenge that China presents, a U.S. Navy spokesperson said that: “The U.S. is prepared to
defend the right of transgenders to use any bathroom or locker room they
choose, anywhere in the world. Let all nations know, whether they wish us well
or ill, that we will go anywhere, bear any burden, and pay any price in defense
of the absolutely fabulous LGBTQIIA+ community! Just as long as no one
is made to feel unsafe or is exposed to physical abuse. Unless they want to be,
if you know what I mean, wink, wink.”
And it's not just the Navy that is becoming much more
sensitive and accommodating. The entire U.S. military is, by any measure,
rapidly evolving. To this end, several branches of the service have modified
their slogans. The army has made a subtle tweak to its erstwhile motto,
“Rangers, lead the way!” The slogan now reads, “Rump-Rangers, lead the way!” Meanwhile,
the air force has updated its motto from the stale “We’re looking for a few
good men” to the much more modern “We’re looking for a few good men…or women…or
non-binary people…or, you know, like, whatever.”
What about the marines, you ask? Well, the Devil Dogs have
altered their slogans, too. “The few. The proud. The marines.” Is now “The Few.
The Hard. In The Latrines.” Also, the leathernecks’ famous “always faithful”
assertion has been changed to: “Faithful? Maybe Not. Fabulous? Always!”
The Chinese Communist Party may have unleashed COVID-19 on the
U.S., but wait until it sees what Milk, Farrakhan, and RuPaul can do to it.
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