Decorated Navy vet Hung Cao was nominated to direct military branch amid turbulences of war and political fractures.

The administration has faced numerous high-profile shake-ups of military officials recently.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Hung Cao to be secretary of the Navy amid an ongoing shakeup of the U.S. military ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally nominated Hung Cao, the acting Secretary of the Navy, to lead the department on a ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, a 2026 Wash100 Award popular vote winner, to permanently ...

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao will need a Congressional waiver from both the House and the Senate to be eligible for ...

U.S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao speaks during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing regarding the Defense ...

The announcement comes one day after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned.

Trump nominated Cao, who currently serves as the acting Navy secretary, in a social media post on Tuesday night, after he ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Hung Cao as permanent US Navy secretary after he took over the role on an acting basis in April. Trump announced the nomination on his Truth Social platform on ...

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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on social media that he was nominating Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to assume the ...