Hegseth could soon fire or remove generals and senior officers, US officials say

ABC News ^ | 10/19/2025 | ByLuis Martinez,Matt Seyler,Rachel Scott andKatherine Faulders

[marcusmaximus]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering firing or removing generals and senior officers as early as this week, according to multiple U.S. and congressional officials.

A list has been circulated on Capitol Hill that contains generals and senior officers who could be fired or removed, the officials said.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Watch an Obama or Biden judge sweep in and issue an injunction to stop Hegseth.

[Mark17]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering firing or removing generals and senior officers as early as this week, according to multiple U.S. and congressional officials.

I thought he should have done that on day one.

[jjotto]

https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/conservative-watchdog-compiles-list-of-woke-ideologues-in-military-for-pete-hegseth-to-purge/

[Publius]

He had to appoint his Board of Warriors to evaluate the flag officers, and that couldn’t be done overnight.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Same thing the idiot bosses at abc do. They get to fire the flunkies when they need to do a RIF due to a drop in sponsors.

[traderrob6]

Why you’re not SecDef.

[MotorCityBuck]

“Why you’re not SecDef.” LOL!! +1
Nothing like an armchair General. :)

[hinckley buzzard]

Good. Obama purged a whole raft of generals because they were patriots, and replaced them with globalist suckers like Milley. Trump is just cleaning up the leftover trash..

[MotorCityBuck]

“generals and senior officers as early as this week”

Maybe they can lead the Maxi-Pad Ukie Platoon to VictorieZZZ LOL!!

[Theodore R.]

Is Hegseth keeping the liberal chairman of the Joint Chiefs?

[McGavin999]

The smart ones will retire now before they get busted down to pfc

[EliRoom8]

Good response.

[HIDEK6]

Trump must have spent the past four years figuring out how to fire government “workers.”

Let’s hope he’s right.

[rellic]

I would eliminate every officer since Clinton was president.
In all the military,
That maybe throwing out the baby with the bathwater,
but train new ones that are war fighters not politicians.
Politicians are elected.
Warfighters advance in rank based on MERIT alone.

[Fai Mao]

He can get around the judges by reassignment. Move them to insignificant command or something. Give them a desk, an AA and not much else.

[FLT-bird]

Start with senior Generals - Charlie Brown first - then work your way all the way down to O5. Purge all the leftists.

[CodeToad]

We expect he will.

[rktman]

Again, do as dems would.....ignore and move ahead.

[ansel12]

Clinton did that first major purge using Tailhook as the excuse.