A Marine Corps general will be in charge at the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time in the school’s nearly 180-year history, Pentagon officials said Friday.
Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, currently the deputy Marine Corps commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, was nominated for reappointment to his three-star rank with the assignment as superintendent at the academy in Annapolis.
Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first woman to lead the Naval Academy, also will be renominated for a third star. Her next assignment will be as deputy chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans, Strategy and Warfighting Development. She has been superintendent at the Naval Academy since January 2024.
Navy Secretary John C. Phelan congratulated Lt. Gen. Borgschulte on an assignment that has traditionally gone to a Navy admiral. He called the appointment “a milestone that reflects the strength of our naval integration and the shared ethos of the Navy-Marine