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Pete Hegseth fires highest-ranking US Army officer in the middle of Iran war
UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/02/2026 | ROSS IBBETSON

Posted on 04/02/2026 1:44:32 PM PDT by DFG

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the highest-ranking US Army officer to resign amid the Iran war.

Hegseth asked General Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources told CBS News.

A Pentagon official said: 'We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army.'

George, a Biden appointee, is understood to have clashed with the administration's vision for the Army.

Vice Chief of Staff General Christopher LaNeve, a former aide to Hegseth, is likely to be considered as his replacement.

Hegseth's decision comes as 50,000 US troops are deployed in the Middle East ahead of a possible ground invasion in Iran.

As a four-star General and the 41st Chief of Staff, George is the senior-most uniformed officer in the Army, responsible for the organization, training, and equipping of more than one million soldiers.

George reports to General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, the civilian head of the branch; and Hegseth.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1tds; 1toomanytdstrolls; 2tds; 3tds; epsteinfury; hegseth; iran; kegsbreath; losing; nothingtoseehere; randygeorge

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1 posted on 04/02/2026 1:44:32 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Not on board with the program. Gets the Golden Parachute to GTFO. Take the buyout and go.


2 posted on 04/02/2026 1:46:53 PM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: DFG

Think Jose Canseco. The A’s traded him while he was in the on-deck circle. All Biden Generals should be gone before you go to war.


3 posted on 04/02/2026 1:47:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DFG

If he needed to go, then tell him to go.


4 posted on 04/02/2026 1:48:48 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

He can go shine BiXiden’s shoes.


5 posted on 04/02/2026 1:49:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: 1Old Pro

He’s apparently been told.


6 posted on 04/02/2026 1:50:12 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-M)
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To: DFG

“George, a Biden appointee”

All we need to know.


7 posted on 04/02/2026 1:50:20 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: DFG
From the article: ...in the middle of Iran war.

Middle of the war?

It's already over. I heard President Trump say it himself.

8 posted on 04/02/2026 1:51:41 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DFG

He can now go cross dress on the internet.


9 posted on 04/02/2026 1:51:47 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: DFG

He was probably upset with all of this macho discipline, espirit de corps, focus and fitness as well as the reduction in forces of the cross-dressing mentally ill trannys and the actual use of forces and equipment to blow things up and kill muzzie terrorists.


10 posted on 04/02/2026 1:52:16 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: DFG

“In May 2021, George took up the post of Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense under Secretary Lloyd Austin.[10] “🙄


11 posted on 04/02/2026 1:53:30 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Anschluss now !)
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George took up the post of Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense under Secretary Lloyd Austin

If Lloyd liked him, he had to go.

12 posted on 04/02/2026 1:54:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DFG

AND the democrat party melt down will commence. Completely ignoring Lincoln (who they love claiming as their own) fired dozens of generals until he found fighters in Grant and Sherman.


13 posted on 04/02/2026 1:55:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden)
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To: DFG

Biden appointee? Why wasn’t he fired a year ago?


14 posted on 04/02/2026 1:56:04 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Think Jose Canseco. The A’s traded him while he was in the on-deck circle. All Biden Generals should be gone before you go to war.


Next thing you know the ball is bouncing off his head, as a Texas Ranger.


15 posted on 04/02/2026 1:56:21 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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‘ It’s already over. I heard President Trump say it himself.’

Parades, big, strong, triumphant parades soon.


16 posted on 04/02/2026 1:56:32 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: DFG

And you can tell your friend there with you he’ll have to go


17 posted on 04/02/2026 1:57:44 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“George, a Biden appointee, is understood to have clashed with the administration’s vision for the Army.“

I wonder where he differed with the CinC?


18 posted on 04/02/2026 1:57:47 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: DFG

Soon to be a CNN or MSNOW “expert” spokesperson?


19 posted on 04/02/2026 1:58:28 PM PDT by NCcatdaddy
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To: 1Old Pro

He should have been gone with Austin!


20 posted on 04/02/2026 1:59:23 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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