Navy Secretary Modly Resigns After Carrier Remarks; Esper Names Replacement

Navy Secretary Modly Resigns After Carrier Remarks; Esper Names Replacement
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 3, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said April 7 that he’s accepted the resignation of acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly and has nominated Army Undersecretary James McPherson to be Modly’s replacement.

“This morning I accepted Secretary Modly’s resignation. He resigned on his own accord, putting the Navy and the Sailors above self so that the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and the Navy, as an institution, can move forward,” Esper said in a statement, which was carried on Twitter.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
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Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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