The Trump administration has fired a senior NATO official who was recommended by a conservative research group to be fired as part of a broader effort to purge wokeness from the Pentagon.
Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was dismissed from the alliance over the weekend without explanation, according to multiple reports. She is one of only a handful of female Navy three-star officers and was the first woman to lead the Naval War College, a job she held until 2023.
Fox News reports:
Chatfield reportedly got a call from Adm. Christopher Grady, the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was told the administration wanted to go in a different direction with the job, according to the Associated Press, citing officials. The officials said they believe the decision was made last week by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but it was unclear whether he received any direction from President Donald Trump. Reuters was first to report on her termination.
In December, the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a conservative research group, sent a letter to Hegseth with a list of 20 general officers or senior admirals whom it said were excessively focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and other similar left-wing initiatives. AAF wrote that focusing on such policies is an impediment to national security and Chatfield was one of eight women who made the list.
Chatfield made the list due in part to a 2015 speech where she bemoaned that lawmakers in the House of Representatives at the time were 80% males, proclaiming that “our diversity is our strength.” The group said she also quoted a slide from a presentation by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute highlighting “Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment can unlock human potential on a transformational scale.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that he was “deeply disturbed” by her sacking while blasting President Donald Trump.
“Trump’s relentless attacks on our alliances and his careless dismissal of decorated military officials make us less safe and weaken our position across the world,” Warner wrote on X.
“Divisity makes us stronger” – what the hell does that really mean? How does it make us “stronger”?
Well done Trump
Good job DJT
I didn’t see any conservative personnel retained when corrupt biden was in office. The demorats need to pound sand and shut up. They make us sick of their hypocrite shouts. Warner. Jeffries, Hakeem, and especially whining schumer are overdue for retirement
Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield is a member of the US Armed Forces and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has the authority to do what he did.The left should stop all the whining.
Yeah let’s increase the numbers of women, especially Democrat women in our federal agencies. What has that gotten us?
Multi millionaire Nancy Pelosi, Hilary Clinton, A.O.C., the leftist socialist Marxist Squad, Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, at least two men at the Pentagon or Biden White House and Administration who think they’re women, that stupid Crockett chick.
Should I go on? Diversity?!? Bullcrap! It’s really called degeneracy.