{"id":79181,"date":"2025-05-21T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/21\/lunday-picked-to-serve-as-next-coast-guard-commandant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:00:41","slug":"lunday-picked-to-serve-as-next-coast-guard-commandant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/21\/lunday-picked-to-serve-as-next-coast-guard-commandant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunday picked to serve as next Coast Guard commandant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/15\/homeland-security-eyes-new-50m-jet-for-noem-coast-guard-officials\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/15\/homeland-security-eyes-new-50m-jet-for-noem-coast-guard-officials\/\">Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> announced Wednesday that acting Coast Guard Commandant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscg.mil\/Biographies\/Article\/3806239\/admiral-kevin-e-lunday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uscg.mil\/Biographies\/Article\/3806239\/admiral-kevin-e-lunday\/\">Adm. Kevin Lunday<\/a> will be nominated for the permanent command role, filling the service\u2019s top leadership post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noem\u2019s announcement of Lunday\u2019s promotion came at the Coast Guard academy graduation ceremony in Connecticut. In addition to that nomination, Adm. Thomas Allan Jr. will be tapped to serve as vice commandant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese leaders have the full faith and trust of me, and they have the full faith and trust of the president of the United States,\u201d Noem said. \u201cI am certain that they will not let us down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lunday, 60, has served in the Coast Guard for the last 38 years. He took over the acting command post after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/21\/coast-guard-commandant-fired-after-trump-returns-to-white-house\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/21\/coast-guard-commandant-fired-after-trump-returns-to-white-house\/\">Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan<\/a> was abruptly fired on Jan. 21, just one day after President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/21\/coast-guard-commandant-fired-after-trump-returns-to-white-house\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8206018.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Coast Guard commandant fired after Trump returns to White House<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Adm. Linda Fagan had served in the top Coast Guard role since June 2022 and was the first uniformed woman to lead a military branch.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House officials at the time said Fagan was terminated because of a failure to address border security threats and a perceived excessive focus on diversity programs. Fagan was the first woman to serve in the top uniformed Coast Guard post and the first uniformed woman to lead any branch of the armed forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials also cited her poor response to reports of sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lunday had been serving as vice commandant at the time of the firing. His previous assignments included several posts in the Indo\u00ad-Pacific region, including time as commander of the Fourteenth Coast Guard District. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In remarks before his promotion announcement, Lunday told the graduating class that the service is \u201con the edge of transformational change, and we will become a stronger, more capable and more agile force to meet the challenges ahead. Together, we will lead that change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of those reforms will be a 25% reduction in flag officer posts, Noem said during her speech. The secretary said the move is needed \u201cso that we can return the decision making to the front line where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have also outlined plans to grow the service by at least 15,000 personnel over the next four years to better respond to current threats and missions. 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