Rob Reiner played a documentary filmmaker in "This is Spinal Tap" who wore the same hat in every scene that said "USS OORAL SEA OV-4B." The real hat reads "USS CORAL SEA OV-43" but he couldn't get permission from the Navy to use it, so they altered it to a nonexistent ship - though, for some reason, close enough to confuse some people. Seems deeply disrespectful of those who served. Mocking, even.
"The USS Coral Sea was an aircraft carrier in the US Navy 1946-90, the second ship to bear that name."
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/trivia/?item=tr0773183
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68483/what-is-the-joke-with-rob-reiners-hat
Coincidence?
1971: USS Coral Sea crewmen petition against the Vietnam War
In 1971, widespread dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War led to an unusual action by at least 1000 crew members who formed the on-ship organization named Stop Our Ship (SOS) and signed a petition against the war. The petition stated that the signers do not believe in the Vietnam War and thatCoral Seashould not go to Vietnam.
On 6 November 1971, over 300 men from Coral Sea marched in an anti-war demonstration in San Francisco and on 12 November 1971 around 600-1200 protestors demonstrated outside of Naval Air Station Alameda to encourage sailors to not sail with the ship. Thirty-five men missed her departure after the Berkeley City Council and 10 churches offered sanctuary. While this number is not unusual for a ship this size, at least one military service member sought sanctuary.
The petition and demonstrations by the sailors of Coral Sea were part of a larger movement of anti-war protests by military service members. Earlier in 1971, about 400 servicemen in Saigon signed a petition against the war, and nine sailors in Hawaii took sanctuary in a church and missed the sailing of the Constellation. (In contrast, the Coral Sea crewmen did not want their protest "to be a thing like the Constellation" and therefore likely were not looking for sanctuary.)
These "flattop revolts" expanded the next year, as sailors signed petitions or disrupted operations on Kitty Hawk, Oriskany, Ticonderoga, America, and Enterprise. Sabotage on Ranger and Forrestal prevented their scheduled port departures while aviators became increasingly concerned about their role in the bombing campaign and questioned the war openly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Coral_Sea_(CV-43)
Reiner's Anti-Vietnam War and anti-Trump Texas Immigration Policy protests
"I was of draft age when the Vietnam War was going on, so I had a very specific opinion about Johnson: I hated him," the Chronicle quoted Reiner as saying during a Q-and-A in 2017. "He was responsible for a war that I thought was illegal and immoral. And he had the power to send me to my death. That's all I could see. It's only as I've gotten older and become involved in politics and government that I've been able to appreciate what he was able to accomplish and how difficult it was."
…"Reiner joined a protest in Texas in 2018, rallying with hundreds of others against the child separation and asylum detention policies under President Donald T[r]ump's first administration, according to mySA.com. The protest took place at the Tornillo port of entry, near hundreds of migrant children who were unaccompanied and roughly two dozen of whom were separated from their parents, the outlet reported."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/rob-reiner-visited-houston-other-155759314.html