By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-13 22:58:29 | Updated at 2024-11-21 12:50:34
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Exclusive-Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say
msn.com ^ | 11/13/2024 | Story by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
Posted on 11/13/2024 2:36:59 PM PST by airdalechief
Exclusive-Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.
It was also unclear if Trump himself would endorse the plan, although in the past he has railed extensively against defense leaders who have criticized him. Trump has also spoken during the campaign of firing "woke" generals and those responsible for the troubled 2021 pullout from Afghanistan.
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The second source said the incoming administration would likely focus on U.S. military officers seen as connected to Mark Milley, Trump's former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Every single person that was elevated and appointed by Milley will be gone," the second source said.
"There's a very detailed list of everybody that was affiliated with Milley. And they will all be gone."
The Joint Chiefs of Staff include the highest ranking officers in the U.S. military and comprise the heads of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard and Space Force.
The disclosure of plans to fire senior leaders of the U.S. armed forces comes a day after Trump picked as his defense secretary Pete Hegseth, a Fox News commentator and veteran who has signaled a willingness to clean house at the Pentagon.
"The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired," Hegseth said in his 2024 book "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free."
1 posted on 11/13/2024 2:36:59 PM PST by airdalechief
To: airdalechief
Mike Flynn for new JCOS Chair!
2 posted on 11/13/2024 2:38:51 PM PST by montag813
To: airdalechief
3 posted on 11/13/2024 2:39:44 PM PST by montag813
To: airdalechief
They are letting to much to be known before he is sworn in.
4 posted on 11/13/2024 2:40:17 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
To: airdalechief
Recall Milley to active duty and demote him.
JK we have bigger fish to fry with the insubordinate officers actually serving at this time
5 posted on 11/13/2024 2:41:27 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: airdalechief
No surprise the woke crowd in the Dinosaur media is in hysterics. How dare Trump undo everything Obama and Biden did to politically weaponize the US Government!/s
6 posted on 11/13/2024 2:44:16 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
To: j.havenfarm
Is he the one that said he would let China know Trump’s plans ahead of time?
7 posted on 11/13/2024 2:49:36 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
To: airdalechief
Chairman needs to go. He’s a woke racist.
To: airdalechief
The ChiComs will not be pleased having their back channel cut off.
9 posted on 11/13/2024 2:56:31 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
To: airdalechief
Winning
Not tired of it.
Never gonna be
10 posted on 11/13/2024 2:58:16 PM PST by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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