Navy Secretary John Phelan has been fired, a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter said ​on Wednesday, in another wartime shake-up at the Pentagon.

President Trump said it was former Navy Secretary John C. Phelan's call to leave the Defense Department, despite multiple reports that he was forced out over disagreements about the administratio

Sources say he was moving too slowly to implement reforms to speed shipbuilding. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sources say he was moving too slowly to implement reforms to speed shipbuilding. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Late Wednesday evening, the Secretary of the Navy was booted as part of an ongoing purge of the military by President Donald Trump and his administration. According to one detail in the CNN report, Navy Secretary John Phelan didn't believe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he said he was being fir...