Portsmouth Naval Shipyard hosted Adm. Lisa Franchetti, naval operations chief, for a tour of its upgrade projects.

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that he was firing Adm. Lisa Franchetti (Medill ’85), the 33rd U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. “Under President Trump, we are putting in place new leadership that will focus our military on its core mission of deterring,

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the dismissal of Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations, and James C. Slife, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He issued a statement requesting nominations to fill their vacated positions.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, is the second top female military officer to be fired by the Trump administration.

Gen. CQ Brown's public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration's wars against "wokeism" in the military. Also fired were Chief of Naval Operations Adm.

Trump named Lt. Gen. John D. Caine to replace Gen. Charles Q. "CQ" Brown as the top military officer in the country.

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.

In a major upheaval of the US military, the Donald Trump administration on Friday (local time) fired the top US general, a development which was followed by his defence secretary Pete Hegseth firing the Chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force,