Actor Sean Penn hammered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for attempting to erase LGBTQ activist Harvey Milk’s service record. Penn, 64, ripped Hegseth as “Chief PETTY Officer” in an email to The Hollywood Reporter after it was revealed in a leaked Pentagon memo that the United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk—christened in Milk’s honor on Nov.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy re-name its ship, the USNS Harvey Milk. Milk was the first out-gay man in the United States to win an election for public office. He won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.