The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shakeup throughout the military’s senior ranks.
The Pentagon is considering a major cut to civilian employees — between 5% and 8% of the workforce. And 14,000 of them work at Fort Bragg.
The sweeping and extraordinary intervention is expected to shock the Pentagon and upend the tradition of the joint chiefs chair serving a new administration.
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Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.
US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
Brown is among the senior military officials the Trump administration has linked to Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
In a historic and unprecedented move, the Trump administration on Friday night fired the Joint Chiefs chairman, the Navy’s top officer, the Air Force vice chief of staff, and the judge advocates general of three service branches.
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