{"id":72452,"date":"2026-04-22T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:56:20","slug":"pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/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 officer<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the navy\u2019s top civilian official, John Phelan, the secretary of the navy, is leaving his job.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to social media, Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Phelan was \u201cdeparting the administration, effective immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/navy-secretary-john-phelan-leaving-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/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 officer The 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, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Phelan was &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagon says navy secretary is leaving, marking another top leader\u2019s departure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/pentagon-says-navy-secretary-is-leaving-marking-another-top-leaders-departure\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pentagon says navy secretary is leaving, marking another top leader\u2019s departure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}