The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseeth, has fired an American admiral assigned to NATO, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday, April 8, saying that his removal was due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead. The Shoshana Chatfield vice -time is the last one of a series of senior officers, including multiple women, who will be fired by the administration of Donald Trump, part of a strange shaking of the main military leadership of the United States that began shortly after the return of the President of President the President
The various shots have led accusations that Trump and his administration are trying to politicize the traditionally apolitical American army and make sure it is directed by people who are personally loyal to the president. Hegseeth withdrew Chatfield “from his position as representative of the United States in the NATO military committee due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell in a statement, without providing more details.
Chatfield is a training pilot of the training that was previously deployed in the Pacific and the Gulf in support of the Operators attack group and the Operations of Anfibio Ready Group, according to their NATO biography. He was also the main military assistant of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, served as the United States Deputy Military Representative in the NATO Military Committee and taught Political Sciences at the United States Air Force Academy, among other positions.
Democratic legislators criticized their removal, and representative Adam Smith said that “our country is less safe due to the actions of President Trump”, while Senator Jack Reed was “unjustified” and “shameful.”
Other upper officers fired
“The silence of my Republican colleagues is deeply worrying. In less than three months, President Trump has set fire to 10 generals and admirals without explanation, including our most experienced combat leaders,” Reed said.
Chatfield’s dismissal occurs shortly after Trump dismissed General Timothy Haughy, head of the highly sensitive National Security Agency of the United States, and his attached Wendy Noble for the apparent impulse of the theorist of the extreme right -wing conspiracy Laura Laura Laura Laura Laura Laura Laura Laura. Hello, they also fired the officials of the National Security Council (NSC) last week.
He New York Times Thursday reported that, after meeting with Lomer the previous day, Trump shot six people from the NSC, including three senior officials in the body who advise the president on the best foreign policy issues from Ukraine to Gaza. In February, Trump posed abruptly to the senior US military officer, General Charles “CQ” Brown, without explanation, less than two years in his four -year term as president of the Chiefs of Joint Personnel.
Hegseeth also announced the elimination of Almirante Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy, as well as the Vice President of the Air Force and three main military lawyers. And in January, Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to direct one of the six US military services, eliminated as head of the Coast Guard, with an officer who quotes alleged “leadership deficiencies.”
The Pentagon also has tasks pointing to the efforts in favor of diversity, and, according to the reports, the officials who supported them with the purge of said content that sweeps the articles on African -American and veteran aviators Jackie Robinson, the first black.
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