Biden Picks 1st Female Admiral To Lead Navy

Handout file photo dated June 9, 2018 shows Vice Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti, center, commander of U.S. 6th Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), and Rear Adm. Guy Robinson, right, OBE, Royal Navy, deputy commander of STRIKFORNATO, visit the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (T-EPF 7) at Bornholm Island in Denmark during exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS). US President Biden has chosen a female admiral to lead the US Navy, the first time a woman has been nominated to head a Pentagon military service branch. Lisa Franchetti is a former head of the US 6th Fleet and US naval forces in South Korea, and has also served as an aircraft carrier strike commander. Her nomination must still be confirmed by the US Senate. If confirmed as Chief of Naval Operations she will be the first woman to become a member of the elite group of senior military officers who make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist America A. Henry