{"id":909517,"date":"2026-05-31T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-the-latest-departure-of-a-top-defense-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:06","slug":"pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-the-latest-departure-of-a-top-defense-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-the-latest-departure-of-a-top-defense-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says Navy secretary is leaving, the latest departure of a top defense leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said John Phelan, the Navy&#8217;s top civilian official, was &#8220;departing the administration, effective immediately.&#8221; Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary of the Navy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/22\/g-s1-118406\/navy-secretary-john-phelan-leaving-undersecretary-hung-cao\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said John Phelan, the Navy&#8217;s top civilian official, was &#8220;departing the administration, effective immediately.&#8221; Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary of the Navy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2306,201,192],"tags":[15988,6116],"class_list":["post-909517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pentagon","category-secretary","category-sports","tag-pentagon","tag-secretary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}