The memo seen by Military.com stated that the name change was done for there to be “alignment with president and SECDEF objectives and SECNAV priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture,” in a seeming reference to President Donald Trump, Hegseth, and Phelan.

Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California when he became a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 after winning an election the previous year.

I’m not really convinced that homosexuality and “warrior culture” are at odds with one another.

Hercules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_lovers_of_Heracles

Pages in category “Male lovers of Heracles”

• Abderus
• Adonis
• Admetus of Pherae
• Argus
• Corythus
• Eurystheus
• Hylas
• Iolaus
• Iphitus
• Nireus
• Philoctetes
• Polystratus
• Sostratus of Dyme

Sacred Band of Thebes

The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερός Λόχος, Hierós Lóchos) was an elite heavy infantry of select soldiers, allegedly consisting of 150 pairs of male couples which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, ending Spartan domination.

According to Plutarch, the 300 hand-picked men were chosen by Gorgidas purely for ability and merit, regardless of social class.[18] It was composed of 150 male couples,[15] each pair consisting of an older erastês (ἐραστής, “lover”) and a younger erômenos (ἐρώμενος, “beloved”).[19] Athenaeus of Naucratis also records the Sacred Band as being composed of “lovers and their favorites, thus indicating the dignity of the god Eros in that they embrace a glorious death in preference to a dishonorable and reprehensible life”,[9] while Polyaenus describes the Sacred Band as being composed of men “devoted to each other by mutual obligations of love”.

Samurai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan#Samurai_shudō

Samurai shudō

In contrast to the norms in religious circles, in the warrior (samurai) class it was customary for a boy in the wakashū age category to undergo training in the martial arts by apprenticing to a more experienced adult man. According to Furukawa, the relationship was based on the model of a typically older nenja, paired with a typically younger chigo.[1] The man was permitted, if the boy agreed, to take the boy as his lover until he came of age; this relationship, often formalized in a “brotherhood contract”,[12] was expected to be exclusive, with both partners swearing to take no other (male) lovers.

This practice, along with clerical pederasty, developed into the codified system of age-structured homosexuality known as shudō, abbreviated from wakashūdō, the “way (Tao) of wakashū”.[14] The older partner, in the role of nenja, would teach the chigo martial skills, warrior etiquette, and the samurai code of honor, while his desire to be a good role model for his chigo would lead him to behave more honorably himself; thus a shudō relationship was considered to have a “mutually ennobling effect”.