I am a Navy Chief. I will always be a Navy Chief. I am a deckplate leader from a family with 162 years of nonstop service dating back to the Civil War.

As a Navy Chief, it is my job to provide sound counsel and draw on my experience across the chain of command. But we are also trained to recognize both danger and stupidity … and shout out when we see it.

This is that time.

Here it is … Danger and Stupidity. Apparently, the US Navy has been ordered not only to change the fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier from advanced-technology catapults back to the steam catapults developed in the 1940s, but also to change the name from that of a WW2 black hero to that of a white, draft-dodging coward.

According to CNN, the Navy is renaming the USS Doris Miller, the African American petty officer who served as a cook on the battleship USS West Virginia and was awarded the Navy Cross in 1942, the second-highest medal for bravery. The first black person to receive this award.

On December 7, 1941, Mille…

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