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.@POTUS: America is NOT FOR SALE — and we do NOT negotiate with Communists, Socialists, or Radical Left Lunatics!

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[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Such a remarkable story! Don’t miss it.

Saigon, April 1975.
The city has hours left before it falls.

A Navy evacuation crew pulls a family of seven out of the chaos — two suitcases between them, no time for anything else. Among them is a four-year-old boy named Hung Cao.

His father, Quan Cao, had worked inside South Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture, close enough to the government to know exactly how little time was left. That closeness is what got the family a seat out. Would a few hours' delay have changed everything?

The Cao family lands in America with nothing familiar left behind. Hung grows up in Fairfax County, Virginia, and graduates from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology — one of the most competitive schools in the country. A refugee kid, chasing a very American kind of ambition.

In 1989, he enlists in the Navy as a Seaman Recruit, the lowest rank there is. Seven years later, in 1996, he graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. The boy the Navy once rescued is now wearing its uniform.

He becomes a Navy diver and explosive ordnance disposal officer — the ones who walk toward the danger everyone else is trained to avoid. Over 25 years, he deploys to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. He earns a Bronze Star along the way. What does two and a half decades of that kind of service actually cost a person?

Near the end of his active-duty career, Cao moves into the Pentagon's budget side, overseeing roughly $140 billion in Navy spending decisions — the kind of number that quietly shapes which ships get built and which programs get cut. In 2021, he retires from active duty at the rank of captain.

Retirement doesn't stick for long. In 2022, he runs for Congress in Virginia's 10th District and loses. In 2024, he runs for U.S. Senate against Tim Kaine and loses again. Two defeats in a row — the kind of setback that ends most political careers before they start.

But in February 2025, President Trump nominates him for Under Secretary of the Navy. The Senate confirms him that October, by a vote of 52 to 45, and he's sworn in on October 3, 2025. The refugee who once needed the Navy to survive is now one rank from running it.

Then, on April 22, 2026, the Secretary of the Navy departs the administration without warning. Cao steps in as acting secretary that same day — 51 years, almost to the season, after a Navy ship carried him out of Saigon.

And now, in September 2026, Trump has nominated him to hold the job permanently. If confirmed, the four-year-old with two suitcases will run the largest, most powerful navy the world has ever built.

Some stories about the American dream are told in slogans. This one is told in dates, deployments, and vote counts — and it's still going. 🙏♥️🫡 ⚓️

[Kari Lake @KariLake]

This is a massive win for America!
Congratulations to my friend, a total patriot, @HungCao_VA @SECNAV.