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The defense secretary fired three generals on one day in the middle of a war, revealing his true priorities.
Jay Kuo at The Status Kuo:
“Here is a four-star general who is actively working to get equipment and people into theater — to protect U.S. forces — and you fire him? In the middle of a war?” That was an unnamed U.S. defense official reacting to the news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had just fired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. A second official, also speaking anonymously, was even more succinct: “It’s insane.” George, the Army’s highest-ranking uniformed officer and a decorated combat veteran of the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, was informed by phone during a meeting that he had been fired. He had been confirmed by the Senate 96 to 1, and still had more than a year left in his term. No reason was given. On that same day, Hegseth also fired Gen. David Hodne, who commanded the Army’s new battlefield modernization unit, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Army’s chief of chaplains. Three generals. One day. Zero explanations. With a war raging, the U.S. public is entitled to understand what drove this decision, particularly whether Hegseth is prioritizing politics over mission.
So what actually happened?
Following Gen. George’s firing, the Pentagon offered little beyond platitudes for his “decades of service.” But reporting from the New York Times, NBC News and CNN has helped fill in the picture. Weeks before his firing, Hegseth had moved to block four Army officers from a promotion list of roughly 29 candidates selected to advance to brigadier general. The four officers Hegseth singled out for removal were—surprise, surprise—two Black men and two women. Nearly everyone else on the list was a white man.
Gen. George pushed back on the move to block these racial minorities and women from advancement. He and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll—a Trump appointee, not a Biden holdover—refused to go along, citing the officers’ exemplary service records. The general then did what any reasonable person would do: request a meeting to discuss Hegseth’s refusal to promote these four officers. Hegseth declined to meet. Two weeks later, George was out. Beyond the controversy over the promotions, other factors may have been at work. Axios reported that the dismissal was also driven by “clashing personalities,” and NBC and the Times both noted Hegseth’s troubled relationship with Driscoll, with whom Gen. George was closely allied. CNN pointed out Gen. George’s prior service as a military aide to Biden’s defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, a role that Hegseth and his circle reportedly held against him. Not one of these explanations has anything to do with George’s competence or fitness for his position, which has never been questioned. They appear tied instead to his perceived loyalties and willingness to stand up for racial minorities and women in the military.
Hegseth’s blocking of these qualified women and Black men was not an isolated incident. Nine U.S. officials confirmed that he had blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female officers across all four military branches. Hegseth’s own chief of staff, Ricky Buria, objected to the appointment of Maj. Gen. Antoinette Gant to lead the Military District of Washington on the remarkable grounds that Trump wouldn’t want to be seen publicly with a Black woman officer at events.
Pete Hegseth’s time as DoD Secretary has been nothing but destructive to military readiness.
CBS News is Getting Everyone On Earth to Eat Shit By Programming US to Assume that "Ousted" USA Army Chief Randy George was Only a Democrat Under the Biden Presidency, Because For All We Know, We Need an Army Chief Either Way Underneath a Lloyd Austin Anyway to Defend Our United States, and CBS News Unnecessarily Made Former Army Chief Randy George Look Like A Democrat When He's Probably For All Americans - Red, White and Blue. It's Insane for the News Media to Politicize Our Military Leaders When We Need Men and Women in Our United States Military Under All Presidencies. We'd Be Defenseless Without an Army Leader if Republicans Like President Trump Were to Have Kicked Out Our Army Leaders Under a Democratic Biden Presidency! CBS Should Lose Their Broadcasting License Under the FCC and Replace CBS with an All-American, Bipartisan News Media Network. We Need More Bipartisan Leaders Who See Both Sides of the Issues and Can Resolve Problems More Efficiently Through A Variety of Ways in a Bipartisan Way. May Goddess Mother Earth and God Father Nature Bless Our Bipartisan United States Military Leaders - They Are the Wisest Leaders We Have!
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted the Army’s top uniformed officer and two other generals as the U.S. wages a war against Iran.
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Hegseth went on a firing spree on Thursday, with a concerning motivation for pushing out the Army chief of staff.
Cameron Adams at The Daily Beast:
The alarming reason behind Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth pushing out the U.S. Army’s highest-ranking officer during wartime has been leaked. Hegseth, 45, asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, 61, to quit his role and take immediate retirement, according to reporting by CBS News on Thursday. That was followed by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell releasing a statement on X that read, “General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.” However, a new report claims George was removed because he and Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of military members to be promoted to one-star generals. George and Driscoll defied Hegseth, according to The New York Times, and cited the long and exemplary service of the four officers as justification for their being in line for promotion.
The publication said most of the 29 other officers on the list for promotion are white men, leading some senior military officials to question whether the four officers were being singled out for their race or gender.
[...] Nine U.S. officials familiar with the matter said Hegseth had either blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.
DUI Hire DoD head Pete Hegseth fires respected Gen. Randy George for rightly refusing to go along with Hegseth’s bigotry-fueled order to remove two Black and two female candidates from the promotion list to become one-star generals.
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