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Trump Admin Fires Senior U.S. Military Official At NATO: ‘Loss Of Confidence In Her Ability To Lead’
One America News ^ | April 8, 2025 | Brooke Mallory

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chatfield; dei; nato; navalwarcollege; oyvey; shoshanachatfield
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Interesting.
1 posted on 04/09/2025 7:26:32 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful


2 posted on 04/09/2025 7:30:11 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Navy Patriot

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.


3 posted on 04/09/2025 7:31:04 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Navy Patriot

She was publicly stating animosity towards her commander-in-chief in the office.


4 posted on 04/09/2025 7:31:35 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Found a picture of Admiral Shoshana.

The first thing I noticed was her chest!

https://deepnewz.com/us-gov-appointments/u-s-navy-vice-admiral-shoshana-chatfield-fired-nato-role-amid-trump-s-military-707ae54e

(I didn’t even know the military had invented that many things worthy of medals ‘n ribbons! Real “medal-worthy” stuff? or Participation trophies?)


5 posted on 04/09/2025 7:31:58 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Navy Patriot

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.


6 posted on 04/09/2025 7:33:29 AM PDT by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Navy Patriot

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?


7 posted on 04/09/2025 7:33:34 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: stanne

Yeah. Teaching degree from BU. Woopie.

That got her into pilot training and a chopper seat.

Hilarious


8 posted on 04/09/2025 7:38:12 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Navy Patriot

Didn’t she put out a memo about “waiting out Trump” or some such ideas?


9 posted on 04/09/2025 7:39:13 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Nervous Tick

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.


10 posted on 04/09/2025 7:39:35 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Skwor

What a bunch of nothing degrees she has.


11 posted on 04/09/2025 7:40:47 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: bray

So is human potential.


12 posted on 04/09/2025 7:41:35 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos )
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To: Navy Patriot

2 questions:

1. What’s immediately apparent in browsing pics of the committee?
2. Where is Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield???


13 posted on 04/09/2025 7:42:56 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Skwor

They wanted a “first”

Never mind any other qualifications


14 posted on 04/09/2025 7:44:24 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Navy Patriot

“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!


15 posted on 04/09/2025 7:45:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Navy Patriot

GREAT!


16 posted on 04/09/2025 7:49:35 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Navy Patriot

Shoshana?


17 posted on 04/09/2025 7:49:41 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Metals look fake


18 posted on 04/09/2025 7:53:07 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Regulator

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


19 posted on 04/09/2025 7:56:05 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Skwor

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.


20 posted on 04/09/2025 7:58:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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