2026-08-20T21:00:50.935Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
三名熟悉内部讨论的消息人士向CNN透露，美国海军正考虑为一艘在建航母更名，该航母原本计划纪念一名在珍珠港袭击中表现英勇的黑人水兵。
在唐纳德·特朗普总统第一任期内，美国海军曾宣布这艘福特级航母将被命名为“多丽丝·米勒号”（USS Doris Miller），以表彰一名协助美军抵御日本进攻的入伍水兵。
目前尚不清楚海军希望将航母更名为什么，但其中两名消息人士称，内部曾讨论过将其更名以纪念特朗普。以在任总统命名航空母舰将是史无前例的举措。
其中一名消息人士表示，海军转而考虑将另一艘军舰命名为米勒号，并正在推荐他授予荣誉勋章——美国军事勇气的最高嘉奖。该奖项的最终批准权属于国会，且需经特朗普同意。
米勒的曾侄托马斯·布莱德索表示，米勒的家人并未被告知此次更名计划，也未获悉重新为其曾叔公申请荣誉勋章的行动。布莱德索称，其家人多年来一直致力于为米勒争取荣誉勋章，并认为海军推荐授予该荣誉的举动“非常积极”。
美国海军将CNN的问询指引至国防部长办公室。国防部发言人表示，目前暂无相关消息可公布。
消息人士称，为“多丽丝·米勒号”更名的工作自今年早些时候就已启动。两名消息人士透露，代理海军部长洪曹（Hung Cao）及其团队也一直在研究更新舰船命名的官方指导方针，明确舰船可以命名的对象，包括总统。
一名消息人士称，在讨论航母更名期间，海军内部实际上已不再称该舰为“多丽丝·米勒号”，仅以其舷号CVN-81称呼。白宫近期发布的一项造船行政命令也仅以CVN-81指代该舰，并要求国防部长和海军部长提交一份计划，将该舰的电磁飞机弹射系统替换为蒸汽液压系统。
海军目前面临着敲定航母名称的时间压力，因为该舰的铺设龙骨仪式预计将于今年年底举行。这是一项公开活动，标志着舰船建造的重要里程碑。据美国海军学会新闻网（USNI News）率先报道，由于造船厂产能限制，该舰预计要到2034年才能交付。
前代理海军部长托马斯·莫德利于2020年1月在珍珠港举行的马丁·路德·金纪念日活动上，宣布以米勒的名字为这艘新航母命名。
根据海军发布的消息，曾在2017年至2020年担任海军领导职务、由特朗普提名的莫德利在活动上表示：“多里·米勒是一名佃农的儿子，他是一名美国水兵——由他所穿的制服所定义——这件制服所有水兵都曾穿过，现在也仍在穿，无论种族、族裔背景或政治倾向如何。”
据太平洋战争国家博物馆资料，来自德克萨斯州韦科的多丽丝·“多里”·米勒于1939年入伍美国海军。遇袭当天，时任三等勤务兵的米勒正在取洗衣物时，炸弹开始落在美军舰队上空。根据美国退伍军人事务部（VA）的说法，勤务兵是当时海军中为数不多向黑人开放的岗位之一。日本袭击造成的破坏使他无法返回 assigned 战斗岗位。
米勒先是救助了受伤的舰长，随后尽管未接受过相关操作训练，仍操纵了一门防空炮向日本战机开火。
美国退伍军人事务部官网称：“尽管未接受过训练，但他的射击精准有效，在弹药耗尽、舰艇开始下沉时才停止射击。即便如此，他仍坚持协助其他水兵撤离，直到最终抵达岸边。”
2001年电影《珍珠港》中，古巴·古丁 Jr. 饰演了米勒这一经典角色。
1942年，切斯特·尼米兹上将向米勒授予了海军十字勋章，随后他与多名白人军人一同参与战争债券巡回宣讲，据美国退伍军人事务部介绍，“这使他成为首位获准参与此类宣讲的非裔美国人”。大约一年后，米勒在吉尔伯特群岛战役中随舰被日本潜艇鱼雷击中身亡。
2025年，海军在前海军部长约翰·费兰（John Phelan）主持下成立了更名委员会，审查舰船及其他军事资产的命名规则。一名熟悉其想法的人士透露，费兰认为，航空母舰应仅以总统、海军上将以及具有重大意义的海军战役命名。费兰在任期间曾要求海军历史与遗产司令部就该问题开展研究，但在审查完成前他被免去了海军部长职务，该人士补充称，费兰并未正式就“多丽丝·米勒号”的更名事宜发表意见。
海军成立更名委员会之际，正值美国国防部在国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟领导下开展更广泛行动，移除被本届政府视为出于多样性、公平性与包容性目的而选定的名称。
例如，国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟上任后立即着手更改纪念邦联军官的美国陆军基地名称，计划改用与这些邦联军官同姓的其他军事人员姓名。2025年，他还采取了罕见举措，命令海军部长将“哈维·米尔克号”（USNS Harvey Milk）更名，该舰原本是为纪念海军退伍军人、同性恋权利活动家哈维·米尔克。
舰船在服役后更名的情况极为罕见。五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔在“哈维·米尔克号”更名时曾表示，赫格斯瑟致力于使用“反映总统优先事项、国家历史和武士精神”的名称。
“多丽丝·米勒号”的命名选择创下了两项首次：首次以入伍水兵命名航空母舰，也是首艘以非裔美国人命名的航空母舰。当被问及为何选择以米勒的名字命名航母时，莫德利告诉CNN，该建议由一群退休的黑人海军上将提出，他认为“我们最强大的战舰之一应该冠以米勒这样的水兵之名，以更好地彰显我们海军的独特与伟大之处”。
“归根结底，这些名称的意义在于为海军及其所服务的国家带来象征意义和凝聚力，”莫德利对CNN表示，“当它们以多丽丝·米勒这样的人物命名时，能让更多人了解所有美国水兵的英勇、爱国精神与牺牲，而不仅仅是他们的指挥官。”
美国现役多艘航空母舰均以已故美国总统命名，包括“亚伯拉罕·林肯号”、“乔治·H·W·布什号”、“罗纳德·里根号”和“乔治·华盛顿号”，不过这些舰艇下水时，其命名者均未在任。但也并非所有航母都以总统命名：例如“尼米兹号”是以指挥二战期间美国太平洋舰队的海军上将命名；“卡尔·文森号”则是以佐治亚州国会议员、众议院海军事务委员会和武装部队委员会前主席命名。
Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump
2026-08-20T21:00:50.935Z / CNN
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Navy announced that the Ford-class carrier would be called the USS Doris Miller, recognizing an enlisted sailor who helped defend US forces from Japan’s attack.
It’s unclear what the Navy is seeking to change the name of the carrier to, though two of the sources said there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump. It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president.
The Navy is looking instead to rename another warship after Miller, according to one of the sources, and is recommending him for the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration for military valor. The final authorization for the award is up to Congress and approval from Trump.
Thomas Bledsoe, Miller’s great-nephew, said Miller’s family had not been informed of the change or the renewed effort to award his great-uncle with the Medal of Honor. The family has been working to get him the Medal of Honor “for years,” Bledsoe said, and called the Navy’s move to recommend the honor “very positive.”
The Navy directed questions from CNN to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A Department of Defense spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.
The effort to rename the USS Doris Miller has been underway since earlier this year, the sources said. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao and his office have also been looking into updating the official guidance for how ships should be named and specifying who they can be named after, including presidents, two of the sources said.
Amid conversations over the ship’s name, the Navy has effectively stopped referring to the ship as the USS Doris Miller internally and is only calling it by its hull number, CVN-81, one of the sources said. A recent White House executive order on shipbuilding also referred to the ship only as CVN-81, tasking the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy to report back with a plan to replace the ship’s electromagnetic aircraft launch system with steam and hydraulic systems.
The Navy is under a time crunch to finalize the name of the carrier as the ship’s keel-laying ceremony is expected at the end of this year. The ceremony is a public event marking an important step in a ship’s construction. The ship is not expected to be delivered until 2034, USNI News first reported, due to shipbuilder constraints.
Former Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced the new carrier’s name in honor of Miller in January 2020, during a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ceremony in Pearl Harbor.
“Dorie Miller was the son of a sharecropper,” Modly, a Trump nominee who had Navy leadership positions from 2017 to 2020, said at the ceremony, according to a Navy release. “And, he was an American sailor – so designated by the uniform that he wore — the same uniform all sailors wore, and still wear, regardless of race, ethnic background, or political persuasion.”
Doris “Dorie” Miller, from Waco, Texas, enlisted in the US Navy in 1939, according to the National Museum of the Pacific War. On the day of Japan’s attack, Miller — a Mess Attendant Third Class at the time — was retrieving laundry when bombs began falling on the US fleet. Mess attendant was one of the only jobs in the Navy open to Black men, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs. Damage by Japan’s attack kept him from returning to his assigned battle station.
Miller proceeded to aid his wounded commanding officer, and then, despite having received no training on the system, took control of an anti-aircraft gun and opened fire on the Japanese aircraft.
“Although untrained,” the VA’s website says, “he laid down effective fire and stopped firing when he ran out of ammunition and the ship began to sink. Even then, he persisted in helping his fellow sailors to safety until he finally made his way to shore.”
Miller was famously portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor.
In 1942, Admiral Chester Nimitz presented Miller with the Navy Cross, and he was then sent out on a War Bond tour with several white service members, “making him the first African American allowed on the speaking tour,” according to the VA. Roughly a year later, Miller was killed during the Battle of Makin when his ship was hit by a Japanese submarine’s torpedo.
The Navy convened a renaming commission in 2025 under former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, to review how ships and other military assets were named. Phelan believes aircraft carriers specifically should be named only after presidents, Navy admirals, and consequential Navy battles, a person familiar with his thinking said. While secretary, Phelan requested a study be done by the Naval History & Heritage Command on the issue, but he was removed as Navy Secretary before the review was complete, the source said, adding that Phelan did not weigh in officially on the Doris Miller specifically.
The Navy commission came amid broader efforts in the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to remove names selected for what the administration considers diversity, equity, and inclusion purposes.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for example, immediately sought to revert the names of US Army bases honoring Confederate Army officers by finding other military personnel that shared last names with those confederate officers. And in 2025, he took a rare step and ordered the Secretary of the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, which honored the Navy veteran and gay rights activist.
It’s highly unusual for a ship to be renamed after its commissioning. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said at the time of the Harvey Milk’s renaming that Hegseth was committed to names “reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos.”
The choice of USS Doris Miller marked the first time an aircraft carrier would honor an enlisted sailor, and the first aircraft carrier to be named for an African American. Asked about his decision to name the carrier after Miller, Modly told CNN that it was recommended to him by a group of retired Black admirals, and that he believes “one of our most powerful warships should bear the name of a sailor like Miller to bring greater attention to what makes our Navy so unique — and great.”
“Ultimately, these names are meant to be symbolic and unifying for the Navy, and the nation it serves,” Modly told CNN. “When they are named for people like Doris Miller, they raise broader awareness of the heroism, patriotism and sacrifices of all American sailors — not merely their commanders.”
Many of the US’ active aircraft carriers are named after past US presidents, to including the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Ronald Regan, and USS George Washington, though none of those ships first set sail while their namesakes were in office. But not all carriers are named after presidents. The USS Nimitz, for example, is named after the admiral who commanded the US Pacific Fleet during World War II. The USS Carl Vinson is named after a Georgia congressman who chaired the House Naval Affairs and Armed Services Committee.
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