Sean Penn dubs Hegseth 'Chief Petty Officer' for effort to strip Harvey Milk's name from Navy ship [View all]

Sean Penn, who played Harvey Milk on the big screen, is ripping Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for reportedly ordering the Navy to strip an oil ship of its name honoring the gay rights activist.

“I’ve never before seen a Secretary of Defense so aggressively demote himself to the rank of Chief PETTY Officer,” Penn said in a Wednesday statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

According to Military.com, a memorandum from the Navy secretary’s office stated that plans were in the works to rename the oiler USNS Harvey Milk.

“Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement about the move, which pointedly came at the beginning of Pride Month.

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