Offtopic: Man, these military websites are embarrassingly old looking. Where is 18F when you need 'em? :-)
https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...
https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...
You don't have superfluous information. The highlight is the text, which is easily readable given font and background (including clear accessibility options). There is an accompanying picture which you can click for high resolution, and the navigation is above and simple to use.
What more could you want?
https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...
In which I can see:
* Text over a lined background. How is that helpful? It's a constant Moiré pattern while you're reading
* Awful leading/line heights.
* Unoptimal character count per line. Best practices is 50-70 depending on font size.
* Tiny type! I have 20/20 vision and there is 11px type I'm trying to read on a 15" laptop.
* Spurious text areas on the right. There's poor organization of text.
* The welcome text is small and lost above the image.
I could go on about the design, but that always subjective.
It's readable enough, not bloated, and there's an understandable logic in how you navigate.
Hmm, the US Navy knows how to navigate! That makes sense.