Posted on 04/09/2025 7:26:32 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
As part of a broader effort to rid the Pentagon of “weak leadership” and inaction, the Trump administration has ousted a senior NATO official, whose firing was previously suggested by a conservative research group.
Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was reportedly fired from NATO’s military committee over the weekend. She was the first woman to oversee the Naval War College, a position she held until 2023.
In addition to leading a joint reconstruction team in Afghanistan, Chatfield was a Navy helicopter pilot and one of the 32 members of NATO’s military committee.
On Tuesday, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee, due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” according to a statement released.
Additionally, in a previous letter to Hegseth, the conservative research group American Accountability Foundation (AAF) listed 20 officers and admirals that it claimed were overly preoccupied with DEI and other left-wing initiatives.
Chatfield was one of eight women who made the list, which stated that concentrating on such measures is a hindrance to national security. Chatfield was also included on the list partly because of a 2015 speech, in which she lamented that 80% of the House of Representatives’ members were men, while declaring that “our diversity is our strength.”
According to the group, she also cited a slide from a presentation from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute that highlighted the statement: “Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment can unlock human potential on a transformational scale.”
Both Hegseth and President Trump have been outspoken in their assertions that “woke” policies are no longer relevant in this new administration.
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Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful
She got in in 1988
She knows very well it’s against the written rules to talk about elected politicians while in office -positive or negative
She went to all’s kinds info universities and got a teaching degree. Brainwashed I guess
What a disgrace.
Trump was elected by the people she is sworn to defend
Sho lost it
Out.
She was publicly stating animosity towards her commander-in-chief in the office.
Found a picture of Admiral Shoshana.
The first thing I noticed was her chest!
(I didn’t even know the military had invented that many things worthy of medals ‘n ribbons! Real “medal-worthy” stuff? or Participation trophies?)
Haven’t looked up if she has any.. any combat experience. The article discusses “rebuilding Afghanistan” from the Taliban- that is from the Bush era. And we know the outcome of that from obama and Xiden— the disaster giveaway of Afghanistan to Taliban and ChiCom’s “Belt and Road”.
The tariff opening of trade may undo all of chi-coms efforts in ME which our zero tariff imports from china have been paying for for many decades. Not anymore.
From her bio:
Shoshana Chatfield grew up in Garden Grove, California, and graduated from Pacifica High School in 1983.[7] She then received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations and French from Boston University in 1987. After she received a commission in the Navy, she attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a Master of Public Administration. Chatfield later received a Doctor of Education from the University of San Diego.[
What exactly in that bio screams Engineering / Military bearing and knowledge such that she somehow warranted a NATO position?
Yeah. Teaching degree from BU. Woopie.
That got her into pilot training and a chopper seat.
Hilarious
Didn’t she put out a memo about “waiting out Trump” or some such ideas?
I thought the flag officers could determine their own uniforms and don’t have to wear all the ribbons they may have gotten at one time or another for properly cleaning a latrine. I had a couple of them that were nothing but confetti.
What a bunch of nothing degrees she has.
So is human potential.
2 questions:
1. What’s immediately apparent in browsing pics of the committee?
2. Where is Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield???
They wanted a “first”
Never mind any other qualifications
“Additionally, in a previous letter to Hegseth, the conservative research group American Accountability Foundation (AAF) listed 20 officers and admirals that it claimed were overly preoccupied with DEI and other left-wing initiatives.”
See ya, Losers!
GREAT!
Shoshana?
Metals look fake
People want to change the system. No. It’s going back to order now.
We are a republic. The voters put elected officials in. They tell the military what to do. When the military can tell the voters they are wrong and the military will choose the leaders of the country we have anarchy Rufus t firefly never even dreamed of
Retired general, sec defense James n mattis started this nonsense. This overthrow. It ends now
There’s some point in the mid-1990s....junior officers who one might regard as ‘winners’...were exiting. Remainder...got promoted. I had gotten out by 2000, but still had work in the mil-world.
Painfully obvious...by 2010, a lot of senior commanders just weren’t qualified.
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