- President Trump has nominated acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao — a 25-year Navy special-operations veteran and former SEAL — for the permanent job and urged the Senate to confirm him.
- The nomination comes as concerns grow that the Navy is being overtaxed: the USS Abraham Lincoln had a record nine-month deployment with reports of crew mental‑health strains and supply shortages.
- Cao, a Trump loyalist who previously served as Navy undersecretary and opposed the COVID vaccine mandate for service members, was picked amid wider turmoil in top military leadership.
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