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"He had a choice during the Civil War and he chose loyalty to the Union, which required moral courage.

"Admiral Farragut was a true American hero," said Del Toro. Additionally, street names across Department of the Navy installations will be renamed by the end of FY23. The Navy has already renamed one building at the Naval Academy and two ships, USS Robert Smalls (CG 62) and USNS Marie Tharp (T-AGS 66). In September 2022, Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd accepted all recommendations from the Naming Commission and gave each service until the end of 2023 to rename their assets.

Michelle Howard, outlined several military assets across all branches of service that required renaming due to Confederacy ties.

The decision arrived after a congressionally mandated Naming Commission, chaired by retired Navy Adm. Navy to hold that rank.īeing the son of a Spanish immigrant, Farragut is also the first Hispanic American naval officer to hold these ranks. Their timing couldn't have been worse.This renaming honors Union Navy Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, a Civil War hero who became the first American naval officer to be appointed to the rank of rear admiral in 1862 vice admiral (a rank created for him by President Abraham Lincoln) in 1864 and by Congressional Act, he was commissioned admiral in 1866, the first officer of the U.S. However, some corners of the galaxy aren't as genteel as the Empire, and Evagardians aren't universally loved, which is how I ended up kidnapped to be traded as a commodity. After all that, there shouldn't have been anything simpler than a nice weekend with a charming Evagardian girl. I'd impersonated a prince, temporarily stopped a war, escaped a deadly planet, and survived more assassination attempts than I could conveniently count. Language eng Summary In the follow-up to Admiral, the intergalactic war has ended and hostilities between the Evagardian Empire and the Commonwealth are officially over, but the admiral is far from safe. Label Free space Title Free space Statement of responsibility Sean Danker Creator