A massive turnover at the top of America’s fighting forces began Friday night.
The evening began with President Donald Trump ousting Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth then weighed in to announce he had removed Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the top officer in the Navy, and Air Force Gen. James Slife, the service’s number two commander, according to Military.com, which called the firing a “historic and unprecedented move.”
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The site added that what it called a “historic, though legal, gutting of military ranks by civilian leadership” was designed to remove targets criticized in “conservative circles who argued, without evidence, that they had gotten the job to fill a diversity quota rather than on
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