Administration Trump large fires of senior military officers in unprecedented cleansing

• President Trump rested by the chairman of the joint staff chiefs on Friday evening.
• His public removal coincided with the firing of the Secretary of Defense of five other senior officers.
• Some lawmakers, including military veterans, expressed the alarm.

The White House overthrew the head of the Common Chiefs of the Staff Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr., who was followed by a series of fire in the older Pentagon alarmed lawmakers.

In a press release posted on Friday evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also removed the Chief of Navy and Deputy Chief of the Air Force Staff, Adm Lisa Franchetti and General James Slife, respectively, as well as senior military lawyers for the military , Marina and Air Force.

The removals of confirmed leaders deepen the riots in the Pentagon, who faces deep cuts in his power of civil labor and budget shifts that Trump officials say will approximate the advantages of the new administration. Nearly 5,400 test workers inside Dod can face completion of work next week, part of a larger abbreviation that could be about 55,000 military civilians.

Friday night fires

In his social announcement of the truth, President Donald Trump did not give a reason for the removal of the head of the joint headquarters, who serves as the President’s senior military adviser, nor did he explain the move to replace Brown with a retired general.

Brown is a fighter pilot, and only the second African -American holding the position of mayor. Following the assassination of George Floyd’s police in 2020, Brown spoke publicly about his personal experiences facing racial discrimination as a plane. Before his latest role, Brown was the head of the US Air Force Staff, making him the first African-American chief.

Trump said he would appoint retired Dan Caine Air Force General to assume the role of head of the joint bosses. This is a position that will have to be confirmed by the GOP -led Senate.

Brown was not the only military officer to be among the interrupted leaders on Friday. Franhett was the first woman to run the Navy and the first military leader to be part of the joint headquarters. Prior to his confirmation, Hegseth had called for the removal of Brown and Franhett.

She is the latest female leader to be dismissed while the new administration shakes the government. Immediately after taking office, Trump officials facilitated the leader of the Adm Coast Guard. Linda F. Fagan, the first woman to run a branch of the US Armed Forces.

Lawmakers sound the alarm

Hegseth’s press release on Dod’s leadership changes also sought nominations for the judge General lawyers for the military, the Navy and the Air Force, the positions responsible for advising military commanders if the orders are legal.

These movements alarmed some lawmakers as Colorado Democrat Rep. Jason Crow, a former army -ranger who pointed out their essential role in law enforcement in order.

“According to President Trump, we are setting up new leadership that will focus our army on its essential mission of obstruction, fighting and winning wars,” the press release said.

Member of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island said in a statement Friday evening that holidays appear to be “part of a wider, deliberate campaign” by Trump and Hegseth to “clear talented officers to politically charge reasons that will undermine our army’s professionalism.”

Other veterans at the Congress criticized the unprecedented mass fires of senior military officers.

“What Trump and Hegseth are doing is non-American, non-American,” wrote Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a former marine officer. “It’s [the] The definition of our army’s politicization, and we must wait to see oaths of loyalty (not in the Constitution) and worse soon. “

“If someone is wondering … this is not normal,” said Illinois Tammy Duckworth, a former soldier of the Army National Guard. “No, this is the job of a dictator he wants.