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Retired Rear Adm. Kenneth Braithwaite Tapped to be Next SECNAV By: Ben Werner November 25, 2019 9:20 PM THE PENTAGON – President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate retired Rear Adm. Kenneth Braithwaite, the current U.S. ambassador to Norway, to be the next secretary of the Navy. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper suggested Trump consider Braithwaite, a 1984 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, to become the secretary of the Navy after asking Richard V. Spencer to resign from the post. “Kenneth Braithwaite is somebody I’ve known for quite some time. I think he’d be very capable. It’s my...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Sunday over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL who posed for a photo next to an Islamic State terrorist's corpse in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday. “Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper has asked for the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer after losing trust and confidence in him regarding his lack of candor over conversations with the White House involving the handling of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher," Department of Defense spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement Sunday. Controversy continued to swirl around whether...

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating how an illegal immigrant accused in a hit-and-run case that killed an off-duty police officer allegedly got his hands on a counterfeit Florida identification card. Miguel Garduña-Gonzalez, 43, spoke to WESH 2's partner station Telemundo about what happened earlier this week when he allegedly hit and killed Haines City Officer Phoenix Braithwaite. During a jailhouse interview, a tearful and remorseful Gonzalez spoke about his wife and four kids. Police said Gonzalez, who is an illegal immigrant, was behind the wheel of a minivan when it struck Braithwaite on Wednesday. Braithwaite was on his motorcycle...