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John Francis Lehman Jr. (born September 14, 1942) is an American private equity investor and writer who was secretary of the Navy (1981–1987) during the Reagan administration in which he promoted the creation of a 600-ship navy. Lehman is on the board of trustees for the thinktank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
The 600-ship Navy was a strategic plan of the United States Navy during the 1980s to rebuild its fleet after cutbacks that followed the end of the Vietnam War. [1] The plan, which originated with Republican leaders, was an important campaign plank of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, who advocated a larger military and strategic ...
Strategic Homeport. Strategic Homeport was a plan developed in the 1980s by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new U.S. Navy bases within the continental United States. It was proposed as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of the Reagan Administration. It called for the construction of new ports for existing and newly commissioned ships.
The secretary of the Navy ( SECNAV) is a statutory officer ( 10 U.S.C. § 8013) and the head ( chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States Department of Defense . By law, the secretary of the Navy must be a civilian at least five years removed from active military service.
Date: September 5–8, 1991. Place: Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal in which United States (U.S.) Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas ...
The Navy settled with General Dynamics in 1981, paying out $634 million of $843 million in Los Angeles-class submarine cost overrun and reconstruction claims. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman was partly motivated to seek the agreement in order to continue to focus on achieving President Reagan's goal of a 600-ship Navy.
[citation needed] Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman hailed its tenets but pointed out it was lacking information on the actual hardware needed to carry out the policy. In the November 2007 issue of Proceedings magazine, he explained, "we (need) a clear and well-articulated statement of what we need to implement that strategy – tightly ...
USS John F. Lehman (DDG-137) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 87th overall for the class. She will honor Philadelphia -born John Lehman , who was the 65th United States Secretary of the Navy during 1981–1987, under the Ronald Reagan administration .