Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed three senior US Army officers on Thursday, including the service’s highest ranking general, in the middle of an active war with Iran. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George was asked to retire effective immediately after serving in the role since September 2023. He was joined in removal by Gen. David Hodne, who led the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Army’s chief of chaplains.
George learned of his firing during a phone call from Hegseth while he was in a meeting, and was given no reason for the decision, according to officials. Reports from The New York Times indicate the ouster stemmed from George and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refusing to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of 29 personnel up for promotion to one star general, after Hegseth had ordered them struck from the list.
NBC News separately reported that Hegseth had blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four military branches. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, a former aide to Hegseth, has been installed as acting Army chief of staff. Since taking office, Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals, including former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr. and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, making this one of the most sweeping military leadership purges in modern American history.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed three senior US Army officers on Thursday, including the service’s highest ranking general, in the middle of an active war with Iran. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George was asked to retire effective immediately after serving in the role since September 2023. He was joined in removal by Gen. David Hodne, who led the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Army’s chief of chaplains.
George learned of his firing during a phone call from Hegseth while he was in a meeting, and was given no reason for the decision, according to officials. Reports from The New York Times indicate the ouster stemmed from George and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refusing to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of 29 personnel up for promotion to one star general, after Hegseth had ordered them struck from the list.
NBC News separately reported that Hegseth had blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four military branches. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, a former aide to Hegseth, has been installed as acting Army chief of staff. Since taking office, Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals, including former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr. and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, making this one of the most sweeping military leadership purges in modern American history.
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