{"id":909519,"date":"2026-05-31T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:05","slug":"pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says navy secretary is leaving, marking another top leader\u2019s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit of John Phelan, navy\u2019s top civilian official, comes a week after Pete Hegseth fired army\u2019s top officerThe Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the navy\u2019s top civilian official, John Phelan, the secretary of the navy, is leaving his job.In a statement posted to social media, Sean Parnell&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/navy-secretary-john-phelan-leaving-post\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Guardian staff and agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit of John Phelan, navy\u2019s top civilian official, comes a week after Pete Hegseth fired army\u2019s top officerThe Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the navy\u2019s top civilian official, John Phelan, the secretary of the navy, is leaving his job.In a statement posted to social media, Sean Parnell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2306,201,192],"tags":[15988,6116],"class_list":["post-909519","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\/909519","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=909519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}