The shake-up comes as the U.S. military is enforcing a massive naval blockade of Iranian ports in the Middle East.

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired Wednesday after months of feuding with his Pentagon bosses, particularly over his handling of President Trump’s “Golden Fleet” shipbuilding initiative. Tensions between Phelan,

Navy Secretary John Phelan has been removed from his post after months of clashes with senior Pentagon leaders over shipbuilding plans and management issues.

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan has been ousted from his role as the military administration faces a major shakeup amid escalating Middle East tensions and an Iran naval incident involving seized

"Soldiers unveil the truth behind Pentagon's cover-up in harrowing account of the 'Direct Hit' they survived. Chaos, courage, and

Miller ripped Wilson as someone who preached “hate” and taught “fake Christianity” while refusing to call his co-panelist by his religious title.

As the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV publicly sparred over the Iran war, social media users claimed that both the pontiff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited fictional Bible verses to promote their messages.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will participate in a Washington Bible reading marathon days after a Pentagon worship service clip went viral for echoing a monologue from the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth escalated his attacks on the media Thursday, comparing reporters covering the Iran war to the Pharisees, the biblical Jewish group that opposed Jesus. The comments came at a Pentagon press briefing in which Hegseth first described the American media as “incredibly unpatriotic.”