Navy naming ship after gay rights activist Harvey Milk

[UglyCasanova]

Because, well...of course they are.


I'm all for gay rights, but I can image every single sailor who gets ordered there has to be thinking awe frick me. Nonstop jokes. Being Navy doesn't help. And it's a ship that's job is to run a tube into another ship and fill it full of fluids.

 

[Captain Picard]

https://youtu.be/y_JbKzIK4dA?t=198

I wonder what Hartman would have to say about this.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

One has to wonder if Harvey Milk would want a Navy Ship named after him.

 

[UberNeuman]

They were going to name it "Liberace" but the constant swaying of the candelabras made everyone seasick.

That and the damn piano wouldn't stop rolling around....

 

[piasabird]

The Navy cant even build a ship that runs.

 

[brycejones]

Cool, good for the seamen who enjoy the salty spray. Texas Hiker will be jealous.

 

[IronWing]

It's an oiler.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

It will not be manned with a Naval Crew, USNS ships are manned by Merchant Marines

 

[blankslate]

I'm all for gay rights, but I can image every single sailor who gets ordered there has to be thinking awe frick me. Nonstop jokes. Being Navy doesn't help. And it's a ship that's job is to run a tube into another ship and fill it full of fluids.

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[JSt0rm]

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Very good :biggrin:

 

[master_shake_]

9 fucking posts and not one sea men joke.

Cmon you've all gone soft.

 

[TallBill]

So the Navy is following tradition of honoring their brave veterans? No problem found here.

 

[DrDoug]

"In the Navy..." :biggrin:

 

[Londo_Jowo]

You guys crack me up, this is not a combatant ship, it's supply ship under US Naval Service (USNS) designation and will be manned by civilian merchant marines. No officers and enlisted personnel will ever serve on it.

 

[fskimospy]

You guys crack me up, this is not a combatant ship, it's supply ship under US Naval Service (USNS) designation and will be manned by civilian merchant marines. No officers and enlisted personnel will ever serve on it.

So what? It's still a US Navy ship. Do you mean that no one will be 'ordered' to go on it?

Regardless, it's hard to see how naming a ship after a gay man can make the navy much gayer than it already is. My ship was probably the gayest place I've ever been, and I've been to plenty of gay bars in my life. I feel like I couldn't go 50 feet some days without someone joke grabbing someone else's ass.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So what? It's still a US Navy ship. Do you mean that no one will be 'ordered' to go on it?

Regardless, it's hard to see how naming a ship after a gay man can make the navy much gayer than it already is. My ship was probably the gayest place I've ever been, and I've been to plenty of gay bars in my life. I feel like I couldn't go 50 feet some days without someone joke grabbing someone else's ass.

It will be joked about Navy, Village People "In The Navy", gay jokes will follow. They'll get over it.
Wasn't Harvey Milk a big anti war guy too?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

They named a ship after Ronny Reagan and you guys have a problem with Harvey Milk?

 

[Genx87]

They were going to name it "Liberace" but the constant swaying of the candelabras made everyone seasick.

That and the damn piano wouldn't stop rolling around....

lol

 

[soulcougher73]

We will pound freedumb into the rest of the world.....

 

[hal2kilo]

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Good one. :biggrin:

 

[dainthomas]

Because, well...of course they are.


I'm all for gay rights, but I can image every single sailor who gets ordered there has to be thinking awe frick me. Nonstop jokes. Being Navy doesn't help. And it's a ship that's job is to run a tube into another ship and fill it full of fluids.

The comments regarding this on the Navy Times FB page are lively.

 

[hal2kilo]

9 fucking posts and not one sea men joke.

Cmon you've all gone soft.

A joke of my trade.

What's long and black and full of sea man?

 

[Schmide]

It's an oiler.

Awesome. I'm 100% gay rights, but oh I love me some gay jokes.

USNS Harvey Milk requesting port to oil up. What's that the side of the poop deck?

 

[TallBill]

Most homophobic thread I've seen on AT

 

[hal2kilo]

Oh chill. It's the irony of the thing. I really have no problems with it.