Talk:United States Secretary of the Navy

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This page makes no mention as to how the Secretary of the Navy gets his job. I assume that he is appointed, but by who? The president? The Secretary of Defense? This is a rather important piece at's kind of a weird nomenclature - 256 Google hits vs 200,000 for "Secretary of the Navy" - and the nail in the coffin is the big lettering at [1]. I don't think any country has a "secretary" in charge of their navy, in which case just "Secretary of the Navy" would suffice. RADICALBENDER★ 15:12, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Served under" categorization

Since the Secertary of the Air Force falls under the Secretary of Defense, the former directly serves the latter. Thus should we list the Secretary of Defense at the time under "Served under" rather than the President? The military revovles around reporting to your direct superior, even though the President is more widely known and of course the Commander in Chief. Minutiaman 22:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. The DON is defined (in this case) more by the reigning President, than the SecDef. If I'm looking up something for encyclopedic reasons, knowing who the president is more important to me than knowing who the SecDef was to that SecNav. If that is important to me, then all I have to do is go to the SecDef article for the periods of time that the SecNav served and make the comparison. SecNavs and SecDefs change within one administration (and rarely at the same time).--LeyteWolfer 22:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)