Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fired two more Army Generals on Thursday after he ousted Army Chief of Staff General Randy George.
General George served in the role under Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.
“The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement,” Parnell said.
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General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) April 2, 2026
Hegseth has not released his own statement on the latest shakeup at the Pentagon.
Later Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Hegseth also ousted two more senior Army Generals.
The Washington Post reported:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top officer to step down and retire, defense officials said Thursday, an extraordinary move amid the war with Iran and the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership.
Gen. Randy George had been expected to hold the job of Army chief of staff for more than another year, until the fall of 2027, and complete what is typically a four-year assignment as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Hegseth decided to go in another direction, representatives for the defense secretary said.
Two other Army generals were removed along with George, said two defense officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the shake-up.
They are Gen. David Hodne, who became the head of the service’s Training and Transformation Command in October, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains.
With George’s ouster, Hegseth has remade nearly the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, a panel of senior military officers at the Pentagon that advises both the president and the secretary. The only ones remaining from when Hegseth took office in January 2025 are Gen. Eric M. Smith, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, head of the Space Force.
The latest shakeup at the Pentagon comes as President Trump announced the Iran war is winding down.
“We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said in Wednesday night’s speech.
“We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” he said.
The joint US-Israel war against Iran, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” began on February 28.
Thirteen US service members have been killed in action in Operation Epic Fury and 140 have been wounded.
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