Top Navy aide Jon Harrison fired by Pete Hegseth amid Pentagon shakeup
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expelled Jon Harrison, the Chief of General Staff, one of the best aids who helped him in the unprecedented reorganization of the Pentagon’s bureaucracy.
The sudden dismissal of a loyal height at the Ministry of Defense was now confirmed by the Ministry of War, two defense officials and a former defense official. Policy.
Pentagon then confirmed that he left and said in a statement, ‘Navy Secretary will no longer serve as the Chief of General Staff’ he said.
“ We are grateful for the service of the department, ” he added.
Harrison’s practice comes because hegseth spends the houses cleaning, apparently no one is deported.
Some of the most important fires, including Naval Operations Chief Admiral Lisa Franchetti, hit the navy; Navy Reserve Chief Admiral Nancy Lacore; and the back admiral Milton Sands, the Command of the Special War Command of the Naval Special War.
Probably the highest profile dismissal, from May 2023 to February 2025, the first black president of the Chiefs of General Staff General Charles Q. Brown Jr. was.
Harrison, the last wounded in the Pentagon reorganization, served as the back of the stage he reported to Navy Secretary John Phelan for about nine months.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expelled the Navy Chief of Staff Jon Harrison, a movement approved by the Pentagon
Harrison (in the picture) served in the role of the back stage he reported to Navy Secretary John Phelan for about nine months
In addition to a Trump Mega-Donoru Phelan, a Trump Mega-Donor, who had no military experience before the appointment, helped to reveal the consolidation of the navy’s policy and budgeting offices.
The Undersecretary of the Navy also tried to limit the impact of number 2 on Phelan.
This position will be filled by Hung Cao, a navy officer for a long time approved by the Senate on Wednesday.
Politico reported that Phelan and Harrison had re -appointed a series of assistants to be assigned to help Cao’s role.
The couple also planned to interview all future assistants with CAO to ensure that they were compatible with the secretary office.
Republican Cao previously ran for the Senate in Virginia in 2024 and lost to Democrat Tim Kaine. President Donald Trump nominated CAO to the Undersecretary of the Navy in February.
It is unclear why Harrison left the service, but his fate was shared by many under the radar staff working under Hegseth.
In February, the former Fox News server and the US Army’s military lawyers known as the General (Jags) for the military, army, navy and air force dismissed military lawyers.
The navy secretary John Phelan (depicted with his wife and daughter) did not have a military experience before before being appointed by President Donald Trump, whom he donated the campaign.
In the picture: General Charles Q. Brown Jr., common Chiefs of General Staff. More than a year after the role was fired by President Donald Trump in February.
When asked why the commanders advised the commanders about the superiority of the law, he said they were not ‘appropriate’ to give legal advice.
In September, Washington Post Hegsseth reported that Trump has begun to re -appoint 600 Jags to serve as temporary immigrant judges, a movement aimed at alleviating the accumulation of immigration cases between the mass deportation of mass deportation.
In addition to re -accepting the legal structure of the army, Hegset is on a Crusade to make infantry fighters depend on the new standards of physical conformity.
Speaking at the Marine Post -Post Base in Virginia on Tuesday, Hegseth said to generals gathered from tasks around the world ‘tired of seeing a fat union’.
‘Obviously, it is tiring to look at war formations or really any formation and see fat troops. ‘Similarly, it is unacceptable to see oil generals and admirals in the Pentagon’s halls in the country and the world leading commanders.’
`This is a bad look. Bad and who we are not ‘he continued.
Hegset hit the political softening of the armed forces, including concerns about bullying and harassment and Woketeess.
‘There is no more identity bear, dei offices, men in dresses, no more climate change worship, more division, attention distribution or gender illusion, no more residues. I said before and I will say it again, we finished our business with Os ***, ” he said.
