Pease Retires. Long-time General Dynamics and former Navy spokesman Kendell Pease is retiring, effective Jan. 31, the company says. From 2006 until now, Pease was working as vice president for government relations and communications. Before joining General Dynamics as vice president of communications in 1998, Pease served 30 years in the Navy as a public affairs officer and was the Navy’s Chief of Information from August 1992 to April 1998.