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自皮特·赫格斯泰特在第二届特朗普政府初期就任国防部长以来，已有至少20名将军、海军上将和文职国防官员被解雇或离职。
一些美军最功勋卓著的领导人要么被赫格斯泰特和特朗普总统解雇，要么在未获充分解释的情况下退役，其中包括陆军、海军和空军的最高级别军官以及关键部队的指挥官。陆军和海军的最高文职领导人也要么被迫离职，要么主动辞职。
在出任国防部长之前，赫格斯泰特就曾批评军方官员，指责他们过于关注多元化举措，对一线服役人员支持不足。在被提名之前，他在一档播客中表示，“任何参与——不管是将军、海军上将还是其他人——参与任何‘觉醒式多元化、公平性与包容性（DEI）烂事’的人都必须走人。”
一位熟悉晋升名单消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，特朗普政府已将高级女性和黑人军官排挤出去，黑人和女性军官在晋升名单中被不成比例地剔除。目前美军中没有现役的四星女性将军或海军上将。许多未能获得晋升的军官已经退役。
另有一些人因涉嫌向媒体泄密而被赫格斯泰特免职。在某些情况下，赫格斯泰特与高级官员发生过冲突，比如陆军部长丹·德里斯科尔，他已于本周提交辞呈。
一位熟悉德里斯科尔辞职情况的消息人士表示，德里斯科尔曾担忧，许多领导下一代陆军转型工作的将军已被赫格斯泰特排挤出去。
以下是赫格斯泰特担任国防部长期间离开国防部的高级军政官员名单：
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空军参谋长联席会议主席查尔斯·Q·布朗将军
特朗普于2025年2月在社交媒体发帖感谢布朗的服役，并突然将其解职，当时布朗作为美军最高军衔军官的四年任期仅过去了16个月。
布朗曾是战斗机飞行员，拥有超过3100小时飞行时长，也是美军历史上第二位担任参谋长联席会议主席的黑人将军。赫格斯泰特在接受福克斯新闻采访时谈及此次解职仅表示，总统有权挑选自己的顾问。他称布朗是“可敬之人，但并非当下的合适人选”。
特朗普任命空军将军丹·凯恩接替他担任参谋长联席会议主席。
*海军作战部长丽莎·弗朗切蒂海军上将*
弗朗切蒂是首位进入参谋长联席会议的女性，也是第二位晋升为四星上将的女性。2023年，拜登提名她担任海军作战部长，此前她曾指挥第6舰队和美国海军驻韩国部队，并担任过海军驱逐舰和航母打击群指挥官。
赫格斯泰特在解雇布朗的同一天，无任何解释地解除了弗朗切蒂的职务。
*空军副参谋长詹姆斯·斯莱夫将军*
特朗普于去年2月宣布布朗离职后，赫格斯泰特发表声明将弗朗切蒂和斯莱夫解职。赫格斯泰特在声明中称两位军官“职业生涯卓越”，并感谢他们的服役。
斯莱夫是空军第二高军衔军官，此前曾指挥空军特种作战司令部，还担任过特种作战司令部副司令。他的职业生涯大部分时间都在特种作战航空岗位，拥有超过3100小时飞行时长，其中包括280小时作战飞行时间。
*陆军参谋长兰迪·乔治将军*
赫格斯泰特于今年4月要求陆军最高现役军官乔治立即退休。乔治是职业步兵军官，曾参加过第一次海湾战争以及近期的伊拉克和阿富汗战争，还担任过拜登政府时期国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀的高级军事助理。
*空军参谋长戴维·奥尔文将军*
奥尔文于去年11月退役，距离他担任空军最高将领的两年任期过半仅数月。他未就提前离职给出理由。空军发言人表示，赫格斯泰特的办公室并未参与此次决定。
作为指挥飞行员，奥尔文由拜登提名担任该职务，此前他曾担任空军副参谋长、北约阿富汗空军训练司令部司令等职。
*陆军少将约瑟夫·B·伯杰三世，陆军军法处处长*
*空军少将查尔斯·普拉默，空军军法处处长*
赫格斯泰特就职后不久，就清除了军方法律顾问团队的高层人员，解雇了陆军和空军的军法处处长。海军军法处处长已经退休。2025年2月的一份声明中，赫格斯泰特呼吁提名该职位人选，同时解雇了伯杰和普拉默，但并未点名他们。
当时他在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示，他需要的不是“拦路虎”的律师，并称军法处处长团队是“一小撮孤立的军官，维持现状”。
他补充道：“现状在五角大楼运转得并不太好，是时候注入新鲜血液了。”
赫格斯泰特对军法 corps 的批评早在他担任国防部长之前就已存在。他在2024年出版的《对战士的战争》一书中，将一些军方律师嘲讽为“军渣（Jagoffs）”，并指责他们“束缚了作战人员的手脚”。
今年早些时候，赫格斯泰特呼吁对军方法律部门进行“彻底重置”，要求军方律师将工作重点放在“作战相关事务”上，包括军事司法、情报法、网络空间和武装冲突法。
他还表示，军方律师应将超出军方职责范围的事项，比如涉及民事责任和军事基地环境问题的担忧，移交给民事律师处理。
*美国南方司令部司令阿尔文·霍尔西海军上将*
这位负责中南美洲事务的美军最高军官于去年年底退休，距离他晋升该职位仅一年多一点。赫格斯泰特赞扬霍尔西，称其担任南方司令部指挥官的任期“体现了作战卓越和战略远见的遗产”。
在担任指挥官期间，霍尔西监督了针对加勒比海和东太平洋疑似运毒船只的打击行动的启动。
美国欧洲和非洲陆军司令部司令克里斯托弗·多纳休将军
多纳休可能最为人熟知的身份是2021年美军撤军时最后一名离开阿富汗的美国军人。他被赫格斯泰特强迫提前退役。作为欧洲陆军司令，多纳休一直在推进组建新的陆军无人机营，该营旨在借鉴乌克兰激烈的无人机作战经验。一位陆军官员上月告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，陆军正逐步取消该单位。
多纳休也是俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后首批抵达乌克兰的高级军官之一。作为西点军校毕业生和三角洲部队指挥官，多纳休在美军内部以及两党政治领袖中都广受尊重。
*美国国家安全局局长兼美国网络司令部司令蒂莫西·霍夫空军将军*
霍夫于2025年4月被解职。五角大楼对他的服役表示感谢，但未给出解雇理由。
一位资深情报官员和一位熟悉相关情况的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，右翼网红劳拉·洛默尔在霍夫被解职一事中发挥了作用。作为特朗普的长期盟友，洛默尔经常公开和私下呼吁解雇她认为对总统不忠的官员。
这位资深空军情报官员否认了洛默尔关于他不忠的指控，去年秋天在接受《60分钟》采访时表示：“我每天醒来都致力于维护国家安全，达到总统的期望。”
*国防情报局局长杰弗里·克鲁泽中将*
克鲁泽于2025年8月被解职，令该机构工作人员措手不及。此次解职正值多家媒体报道了国防情报局的初步评估细节，该评估称6月“午夜锤子行动”中对伊朗核设施的军事打击仅将伊朗核计划推迟了数月。
*国防部长高级军事助理詹妮弗·肖特空军少将*
肖特曾担任国防部长的高级军事助理，先后为劳埃德·奥斯汀和赫格斯泰特服务，直至2025年2月。该职位是国防部长与参谋长联席会议和作战司令部之间的主要军事联络点。
*美国驻北约军事委员会军事代表肖莎娜·查特菲尔德海军中将*
2025年4月，五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔证实，查特菲尔德因“对其领导能力失去信心”被解职。
此前数年，一些X平台账号将查特菲尔德列为潜在的“觉醒”军官，部分原因是她2015年在妇女节的一次演讲中展示了一张幻灯片，内容为“投资性别平等和赋予女性权力能够在变革性规模上释放人类潜力”。
*海军后备队司令南希·拉科雷海军中将*
拉科雷于2025年8月担任海军后备队司令期间被解职。她在海军服役超过30年，曾担任驻意大利海军第6舰队副司令，负责超过2000万平方海里的海域，据海军方面介绍。官方未公开解职理由。
拉科雷目前作为民主党候选人竞选南卡罗来纳州第1国会选区的联邦公职。
*海军特种作战司令部司令米尔顿·桑兹海军少将*
美国海军学会新闻报道称，桑兹和拉科雷均于2025年8月被解职，未给出官方理由。桑兹在海军服役30年，曾担任水面作战军官，后成为海豹突击队员。他担任海军特种作战司令部司令约一年时间。
*陆军转型与训练司令部司令戴维·霍德纳将军*
陆军牧师团司令威廉·格林少将
霍德纳和格林于今年4月被解职，与陆军参谋长兰迪·乔治将军被解职的时间大致相同。
未给出解职理由，但赫格斯泰特曾誓言要对军方牧师团进行全面改革，称其“被政治正确和世俗人文主义所感染”。
文职领导人
海军部长约翰·费兰
费兰于今年4月离职。特朗普称他是“很棒的人”，但表示他在与他人相处方面存在问题。特朗普称，部分冲突围绕政府的造船计划展开。
特朗普和赫格斯泰特一致认为需要更换海军领导层，赫格斯泰特在决定公开前就告知了费兰被解职的消息，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道。他的代理海军部长由洪·曹接任。
陆军部长丹·德里斯科尔
德里斯科尔于8月31日辞职，此前他与赫格斯泰特的紧张关系已持续数月。
德里斯科尔曾致力于推动陆军现代化，提升其无人武器专业技能。但在离职之际，德里斯科尔向特朗普政府提出担忧，称赫格斯泰特已将该计划中的关键人物将军排挤出去，一位熟悉此事的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
*乔·卡斯珀，赫格斯泰特的办公厅主任*
卡斯珀在特朗普政府早期担任赫格斯泰特的办公厅主任，2025年4月被调至其他岗位。此事发生在赫格斯泰特在Signal聊天群中分享空袭信息时意外涉及一名记者引发的人事变动之后。
五角大楼告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他将作为特别政府雇员负责“特别项目”，这意味着他每年只能为政府工作130天。“他会继续留在我们身边，只是职位略有不同，当然不会被解雇，”赫格斯泰特告诉福克斯新闻，“我们会随着时间推移做出调整，我们感谢乔所做的一切。”
科林·卡罗尔，赫格斯泰特高级顾问
丹·考德威尔，国防部副部长办公厅主任
达林·塞尔尼克，赫格斯泰特的副办公厅主任
2025年4月，在卡斯珀开展泄密调查期间，赫格斯泰特的两名高级助手考德威尔和塞尔尼克被解雇。卡罗尔也被置于行政休假状态并很快被解雇。
三人在X平台上发帖质疑调查的合法性，称“我们仍未得知我们究竟因何事被调查，是否仍在进行中的调查，或者一开始是否真的存在针对‘泄密’的调查”。
调查的焦点尚不明确，但当时国防部长办公室正应对一系列令赫格斯泰特感到沮丧的泄密事件。
约翰·乌利奥特，发言人
五角大楼发言人约翰·乌利奥特负责将多元化、公平性与包容性举措和语言从军方文件中移除，他于2025年4月离职。离开五角大楼后不久，他为《政治杂志》撰写了一篇专栏文章，描述了他在国防部经历的“地狱般的一个月”。
乌利奥特表示他是自愿辞职的，但赫格斯泰特暗示他是被解雇的，当时在接受《福克斯与朋友们》采访时表示：“任何了解约翰的人都知道我们为什么让他离开。”上个月，五角大楼副新闻发言人乔尔·瓦尔迪兹表示，乌利奥特“工作表现糟糕，现在一有机会就攻击部长”。
Here are the military and civilian leaders who’ve been fired, forced out or resigned since Hegseth became defense secretary
2026-09-01T21:43:00-0400 / CBS News
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration.
Some of the military’s most decorated leaders have either been fired by Hegseth and President Trump or have retired with little explanation, including the Army, Navy and Air Force’s highest-ranking officers and the leaders of key units. The Army and Navy’s top civilian leaders have also either been forced out or resigned.
Before becoming defense secretary, Hegseth had criticized military officers, accusing them of being too focused on diversity initiatives and insufficiently supportive of frontline service members. Before he was nominated, he said on a podcast that “any general that was involved — general, admiral, whatever — that was involved in any of the DEI woke s*** has got to go.”
The Trump administration has pushed out top female and Black officers, and Black and female officers have been disproportionately removed from promotion lists, a source familiar with the lists told CBS News. There are currently no active four-star women generals or admirals in the military. Many of those who failed to secure promotions have left the military.
Others were ousted by Hegseth over suspected leaking to the media. And in some cases, Hegseth has clashed with top officials like Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who handed in his resignation this week.
A source familiar with Driscoll’s resignation said he had expressed concerns that many of the generals who had been leading efforts to transform the Army for the next generation of warfare had been pushed out by Hegseth.
Here are the top military and civilian leaders who have left the Defense Department during Hegseth’s tenure as defense secretary:
CBS News
Military Leaders
Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mr. Trump abruptly fired Brown in a February 2025 social media post thanking him for his service, 16 months into Brown’s four-year term as the top-ranking military officer.
Brown is a former fighter pilot with more than 3,100 flight hours, and was only the second Black general to serve as chairman in the history of the military. All Hegseth told Fox News about the ouster was that the president should be able to pick his adviser. He said Brown is “an honorable man, not the right man for the moment.”
Mr. Trump replaced him as chairman with Air Force Gen. Dan Caine.
*Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations*
Franchetti was the first woman to be part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the second to be promoted to four-star admiral. Biden nominated her to be chief of naval operations in 2023, after she headed the 6th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Korea, and was commander of a naval destroyer and an aircraft carrier strike group.
Hegseth relieved Franchetti of her duties without explanation on the same day that Brown was fired.
*General James Slife, Air Force vice chief of staff*
After Mr. Trump announced Brown’s departure in February of last year, Hegseth put out a statement pushing out Franchetti and Slife. In his statement, Hegseth said both officers had “distinguished careers” and thanked them for their service.
Slife, who was the second-highest-ranking officer in the Air Force, previously commanded the Air Force Special Operations Command and also was vice commander of Special Operations Command. He spent most of his career in special operations aviation assignments, with more than 3,100 flight hours, including 280 in combat.
*General Randy George, Army chief of staff*
Hegseth asked George, the Army’s top uniformed officer, to take immediate retirement in April. A career infantry officer, George served in the first Gulf War and the more recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and was senior military assistant to Biden-era Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
*General David Allvin, Air Force chief of staff*
Allvin retired last November, just over halfway into his two-year term as the Air Force’s top general. He did not give a reason for his early departure. An Air Force spokesperson said Hegseth’s office was not involved in the decision.
A command pilot, Allvin was nominated to the role by Biden, after serving as vice chief of staff and as commanding general of NATO Air Training Command – Afghanistan, among other roles.
*Army Lieutenant General Joseph B. Berger III, judge advocate general of the Army*
*Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Plummer, judge advocate general of the Air Force*
Soon after Hegseth took office, he cleared out the top ranks of the military’s lawyers, terminating the judge advocates general of the Army and Air Force. The Navy JAG had already retired. In a February 2025 statement, he issued a call for nominations for the posts and also fired Berger and Plummer, though he did not identify them by name.
At the time, he told Fox News that he wanted lawyers who aren’t “roadblocks,” and he referred to the JAG leadership as a “small group of insulated officers who perpetuate the status quo.”
“The status quo hasn’t worked very well at the Pentagon,” he added. “It’s time for fresh blood.”
Hegseth’s criticism of the JAG corps predates his tenure as defense secretary. He derided some military lawyers as “Jagoffs” in his 2024 book “The War on Warriors,” and accused them of “tying the hands of warfighters.”
Earlier this year, Hegseth called for a “hard reset” on the military’s legal department, calling on military lawyers to sharpen their focus on “aspects of warfighting,” including military justice, intelligence law, cyberspace and the law of armed conflict.
He also said military lawyers should hand off concerns outside military channels, like those involving civilian responsibilities and military installation environmental concerns, to civilian lawyers.
*Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of U.S. Southern Command*
The U.S. military’s top officer in Central and South America retired late last year, a little over a year after he was promoted to the job. Hegseth praised Holsey, saying his tenure as commander of SOUTHCOM “reflects a legacy of operational excellence and strategic vision.”
During his time as commander, Holsey oversaw the start of the strike campaign against alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean and East Pacific.
General Christopher Donahue, head of U.S. Army Europe and Africa
Donahue, who may be best known as the last U.S. service member to leave Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, was forced by Hegseth to retire early. As the head of the U.S. Army in Europe, Donahue had been working on a new Army drone battalion that was tasked with taking lessons from the intense drone warfare in Ukraine. The Army is phasing out that unit, an Army official told CBS News last month.
Donahue was also one of the first senior officers on the ground in Ukraine after Russia invaded. A West Point graduate and Delta Force commander, Donahue was widely respected across the military and by Democratic and Republican political leaders alike.
*Air Force General Timothy Haugh, NSA director and head of U.S. Cyber Command*
Haugh was fired in April 2025. The Pentagon thanked him for his service but did not give a reason for his termination.
Right-wing personality Laura Loomer played a role in Haugh’s ouster, a senior intelligence official and a source familiar with the circumstances told CBS News. A longtime Trump ally, Loomer has frequently advocated — both publicly and privately — for the ouster of officials whom she views as disloyal to the president.
The longtime Air Force intelligence officer denied Loomer’s claims of disloyalty, telling “60 Minutes” last fall: “Every day I woke up committed to our national security and to meeting the expectations of the president.”
*Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency*
Kruse was ousted in August 2025, catching staff at the agency off guard. His ouster came after news outlets reported details from an initial DIA assessment that said military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June during Operation Midnight Hammer had only set back the nuclear program by a matter of months.
*Air Force Lieutenant General Jennifer Short, senior military assistant to the secretary of defense*
Short served as the senior military assistant to the defense secretary, first for Lloyd Austin and then for Hegseth, until February 2025. The assistant position serves as the primary military point of contact between the defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the combatant commands.
*Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee*
In April 2025, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed that Chatfield had been relieved “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.”
Chatfield had been singled out by some X accounts in the years prior as a potential “woke” officer in part because of a presentation she gave on Women’s Equality Day back in 2015 with a slide that said, “investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment can unlock human potential on a transformational scale.”
*Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, Navy Reserve chief*
Lacore was the head of the Navy Reserve in August 2025 when she was relieved of her duties. She served over 30 years in the Navy, with assignments including vice commander of the Navy’s Sixth Fleet based in Italy, which is responsible for more than 20 million square nautical miles of ocean, according to the Navy. No reason was publicly given for her termination.
Lacore is running for federal office as the Democratic nominee in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.
*Rear Admiral Milton Sands, head of Naval Special Warfare Command*
USNI reported that Sands and Lacore were both relieved in August 2025 without an official reason given. Sands had served in the Navy for 30 years and served surface warfare officer assignments before becoming a SEAL. He was the head of Naval Special Warfare Command for about a year.
*General David Hodne, Army Transformation and Training Command*
Major General William Green, head of the Army Chaplain Corps
Hodne and Green were removed from their roles in April, at around the same time as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s ouster.
No reason was given for the ousters, but Hegseth has vowed to make sweeping changes to the military’s Chaplain Corps, which he said was “infected by political correctness and secular humanism.”
Civilian Leaders
John Phelan, Navy secretary
Phelan left his role in April. The president called him a “wonderful guy,” but said he had trouble getting along with others. Mr. Trump said that some of the conflicts revolved around the administration’s shipbuilding efforts.
The president and Hegseth agreed on the need for new Navy leadership, and Hegseth informed Phelan of the decision to remove him before it was made public, CBS News previously reported. He was replaced as acting Navy secretary by Hung Cao.
Dan Driscoll, Army secretary
Driscoll resigned on Aug. 31, after months of rising tensions with Hegseth.
Driscoll sought to modernize the Army and increase its expertise in unmanned weapons. But on his way out, Driscoll raised concerns with the Trump administration around the Army’s transformation efforts and the fact that Hegseth had ousted some of the generals who were key figures in the plan, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.
*Joe Kasper, Hegseth’s chief of staff*
Kasper was Hegseth’s chief of staff early in the Trump administration and was moved to a different role in April 2025. That came amid staffing changes after Hegseth shared information about airstrikes in a Signal chat that inadvertently included a journalist.
The Pentagon told CBS News he would work on “special projects” as a special government employee, which means he can only work for the government 130 days each year. “He’s staying with us, going to be in a slightly different role, but he’s not going anywhere, certainly not fired,” Hegseth told Fox News. “You make changes over time, and we’re grateful for everything Joe’s done.”
Colin Carroll, senior Hegseth adviser
Dan Caldwell, deputy defense secretary’s chief of staff
Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff
Two of Hegseth’s top aides, Caldwell and Selnick, were fired in April 2025, as Kasper conducted a leak investigation. Carroll was also put on administrative leave and soon fired.
The three questioned the validity of the probe in a post on X, saying that “we still have not been told what exactly we were investigated for, if there is still an active investigation, or if there was even a real investigation of ‘leaks’ to begin with.”
The focus of the probe was not clear, but at the time, the defense secretary’s office was grappling with a series of leaks that frustrated Hegseth.
John Ullyot, spokesperson
Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot, who oversaw much of the effort to remove diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and language from the military, left his role in April 2025. Soon after his departure from the Pentagon, he wrote an opinion piece for Politico Magazine describing what he said was his “month from hell” inside the department.
Ullyot said he stepped down from his job voluntarily, but Hegseth has suggested he was fired, telling “Fox and Friends” at the time: “Anybody that knows John knows why we let him go.” Last month, Pentagon deputy press secretary Joel Valdez said Ullyot was “terrible at his job and now lashes out at the Secretary any chance he gets.”