Trump picks businessman John Phelan to be Secretary of the Navy
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he is nominating businessman John Phelan, one of his former campaign donors, to serve as his United States Secretary of the Navy.
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Letters to the Editor: Pete Hegseth cannot be trusted with the nation’s secrets as defense secretary
Back then, women were prohibited from serving in combat, a policy to which our current Defense secretary nominee would like to return now. One day, an assistant secretary of the Navy came to speak.
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Trump Picks Big Donor with Background in Finance and Little Experience with the Military for Navy Secretary
John Phelan is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of the Navy, the first service leadership position that the incoming administration has announced as it prepares to put its stamp on ...
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Fired as acting Navy secretary, Modly is now stuck in COVID-19 quarantine
Former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is currently in ... USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook first reported on Modly’s current status in a report that revealed that Modly took an $243,000 ...
Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial
The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved ...
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April 16, 1897: T. Roosevelt Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy
In 1897, President McKinley appointed Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's enthusiastic support for intervention--he once said, "I should welcome ...