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It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president.\n    \n\n    \n            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.\n    \n\n    \n            Thomas Bledsoe, Miller\u2019s great-nephew, said Miller\u2019s 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 \u201cfor years,\u201d Bledsoe said, and called the Navy\u2019s move to recommend the honor \u201cvery positive.\u201d\n    \n\n\n       \n    \n\n    \n            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.\n    \n\n    \n            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.\n    \n\n    \n            Amid conversations over the ship\u2019s 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\u2019s electromagnetic aircraft launch system with steam and hydraulic systems.\n    \n\n    \n            The Navy is under a time crunch to finalize the name of the carrier as the ship\u2019s keel-laying ceremony is expected at the end of this year. The ceremony is a public event marking an important step in a ship\u2019s construction. The ship is not expected to be delivered until 2034, USNI News first reported, due to shipbuilder constraints.\n    \n\n    \n            Former Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced the new carrier\u2019s name in honor of Miller in January 2020, during a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ceremony in Pearl Harbor.\n    \n\n    \n            \u201cDorie Miller was the son of a sharecropper,\u201d Modly, a Trump nominee who had Navy leadership positions from 2017 to 2020, said at the ceremony, according to a Navy release. \u201cAnd, he was an American sailor \u2013 so designated by the uniform that he wore \u2014 the same uniform all sailors wore, and still wear, regardless of race, ethnic background, or political persuasion.\u201d\n    \n\n    \n            Doris \u201cDorie\u201d Miller, from Waco, Texas, enlisted in the US Navy in 1939, according to the National Museum of the Pacific War. 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Even then, he persisted in helping his fellow sailors to safety until he finally made his way to shore.\u201d\n    \n\n    \n            Miller was famously portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2001 film \u201cPearl Harbor.\u201d\n    \n\n    \n            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, \u201cmaking him the first African American allowed on the speaking tour,\u201d 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\u2019s torpedo.\n    \n\n\n       \n    \n\n    \n            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.\n    \n\n    \n            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.\n    \n\n    \n            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. 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