gungasnake wrote:Try asking yourself how an English teacher at Annapolis gets to be navsec. Absolutely nothing in this guy's background adds up, other than for the fact of him being a pervert.
I will give the snake a straight answer.
He became Navy Secretary the same way anyone becomes Navy secretary. He was chosen by Secretary of Defense under the auspice the President who in this case happened to be Ronald Reagan.
He was almost certainly selected based on his military career. He was an officer in the Marines during the Vietnam conflict where he was awarded the Navy Cross for heroism as well as many other honors.