五角大楼高级发言人肖恩·帕内尔周三表示，海军部长约翰·费伦“将离开政府，立即生效”。
一名政府官员告诉ABC新闻“费伦部长被要求下台。”
知情人士告诉ABC新闻，费伦和国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯此前发生过冲突。
帕内尔说，海军副部长曹将担任代理海军部长。
“我们代表陆军部长和副陆军部长，感谢费伦部长为国防部和美国海军做出的贡献。我们祝愿他在未来的努力中一切顺利，”帕内尔在他的声明中说。
费伦于2025年3月被任命为该职位。
海军部长是军种的最高文职官员。秘书和负责人海军的作战，海军的最高上将，负责训练和装备海军。他们不负责指挥像对伊朗那样的作战行动，这是地区指挥官的职责。
根据他的海军部传记，费伦是位于佛罗里达州棕榈滩的私人投资公司Rugger Management的创始人兼董事长。在创办Rugger之前，他是迈克尔戴尔的私人投资公司MSD资本公司和为第三方投资者管理投资的MSD合伙公司的联合创始人和联合管理合伙人。
他获得了哈佛商学院的硕士学位，并以优异的成绩从南卫理公会大学毕业，获得经济学和政治学学士学位。
费伦还获得了伦敦经济学院经济学和国际关系的普通课程学位。
Navy Secretary John Phelan leaving 'immediately,' Pentagon says
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan “is departing the administration, effective immediately,” the Pentagon's top spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday.
An administration official told ABC news "Secretary Phelan was asked to step down."
Phelan and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously clashed, sources familiar told ABC News.
Parnell said Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao will serve as acting Secretary of the Navy.
"On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors," Parnell said in his statement.
Phelan was appointed to his position in March 2025.
The secretary of the Navy is the service’s top civilian official. The secretary and theChief ofNavalOperations, the Navy’s top admiral, are responsible for training and equipping the Navy. They do not have responsibilities for running combat operations like the one against Iran, which falls to regional commanders.
According to his Department of the Navy biography, Phelan was founder and chairman of Rugger Management, a private investment firm based in Palm Beach, Florida. Before launching Rugger, he was a co-founder and co-managing partner of MSD Capital, a private investment firm for Michael Dell, and MSD Partners, which managed investments for third-party investors.
He earned a master’s degree from Harvard Business School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude with distinction from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor’s in economics and political science.
Phelan also earned a general course degree in economics and international relations from the London School of Economics.
