Sank same.

To make Chief in the Navy is a remarkable accomplishment and honor.

Only those that have held that esteemed position should comment.

Although it is true that you can't trust those "even numbered Chiefs"...everybody knows that.

My dad was career Navy and retired as a CPO.

I know Sean means well BUT! Hegseth can be appointed to a job by a convicted felon and a failed businessman for no apparent good reason but he could never do the job of a Sailor required to be selected as a CHIEF PETTY OFFICER. It takes a lot of integrity. The malingering light is out! Back to work!

Hegseth is more a "barstool commando"

or,

A five jump chump, turdpolisher, asspickle, asshat, etc

Looks really purty in uniform when on a Senior Officers staff.

He may have been described as a “typically effective officer.” According to an old supply officer I knew, that phrase was a career topper for an officer.

I preferred the colorful and right to the point “staunch supporter of Two Navy Balls.

ex-wife of a CPO here. It was an honor for him.

Judge Rheinhold said in an interview the on Fast Times no one knew who he was. This was a prime career making movie for all the young actors sought. Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, and Anything Edwards are all in that movie. After Penn’s final shoot, he came back to the set NOT in character. Judge had no idea.

Sean’s father was a low altitude bomber in WWII. Lots of missions. He was a cinematographer or some tech in Hollywood. He got blacklisted by McCarthy and, later, Trumps lawyer Roy Cohn.

However, Hogsbreath is a very, very Petty Officer.
The kind that might go missing overboard one dark night in the middle of an ocean, leaving a half dozen empty bottles of "contraband" under his bunk.
Anyway, YOU DON'T CHANGE THE NAME OF A COMMISSIONED SHIP. Full stop.
The only times a ship name can be changed is before it's christening, or after it's been decommissioned and changes ownership or flag.
Whether or not you believe in bad juju, enough people will, and a ship that's forced to change names due to a whim while in service is pretty much doomed.
And that's bad enough on a regular ship, but on a ship that carries fuel for fleets of ships? A ship that's basically a bomb waiting to happen? If something untoward happens, it could be as bad as the Concord Weapons Depot or the Port Arthur fertilizer ship explosions - where objects were vaporized out to half a mile out.